Uh, my weekly television column at Torontoist has been up for two days…. just pretend I posted this on Monday, will you?

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As the American healthcare system continues to disintegrate, people are forced to make life choices that might otherwise seem foolish. (Seriously: she has brain lesions for which she cannot get treatment. What the hell.)

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…but I’m not sure if this guy pulls it off.

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THE HEAD CHEERLEADER SLASH QUEEN BITCH OF SCHOOL This exhaustingly crap old trope is so annoyingly stereotypical it honestly makes my teeth itch every time I see it – which means my teeth itch a lot, because of the following true formula: 1.) Most writers are nerds. 2.) Most nerds hated high school. 3.) Many […]

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In all the hubbub that’s crossed the blogosphere about Pakistan in the last couple of days, I’ve been noticing a common thread, especially prevalent in North American writers but hardly quiet in many a writer from elsewhere in the first world, and that’s the assumption that the choice that exists to be made is between […]

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In case you haven’t noticed, thanks to the help of Stefan Rivet: the remix of Teen Titans #44 is now up on the site. To those of you who have asked me if I’m ever going to do another comics remix, the answer is: yes, and I’m about halfway done one right now actually, but […]

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The brilliant and original XKCD is currently trailing the hackish, never-ever-even-remotely-funny (and often disturbingly sexist) Day By Day in the 2007 Weblog Awards by about 400 votes, and this cannot be borne. Go now, and vote for XKCD. Vote every day. Tell everybody else to vote as well. Because a comic strip that is actually […]

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The Amazing Race is, as everybody who reads my blog knows, the best goddamned show on television, and it is no small wonder that CBS was planning to hold off on it for midseason because of the impending writer’s strike. Unfortunately, Viva Laughlin was exactly the farce that everybody predicted it would be and got […]

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La Peregrine is awesome. They should bring him back. (Preferably not to kill him immediately.) Bahlactus once cracked an egg in Reno, just to watch it fry.

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Holy crap, the loonie is at a buck-seven USD. Economic analysts are saying that a jump to $1.10 isn’t just feasible but indeed near-term likely. The Federal Reserve is just looking at this point for an excuse to cut interest rates, but it has to realize that doing so would be, you know, bad. Like […]

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Remember how everybody was all “oh, let’s be reasonable, the Tories aren’t going to try and instill their backwards right-wing values on Canada while only in charge of a minority government?” Well, ha ha.

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Well, this game would probably be very addictive to me if I didn’t have Team Fortress 2. Ah, sweet, sweet Team Fortress 2. I do so love shooting people.

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So you say to me, “I like search engines and all, but what I really wish is that I could have a search engine endorsed by KISS. I bet KISS would provide me with an excellent search engine.” And I say “have I got something for you.“

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Contest of Champions, the first Marvel miniseries, celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary late last year. So I felt it only appropriate to take a look back at it, and see how it might… differ… if published today. THEN: NOW: THEN: NOW: THEN: NOW: THEN: NOW: THEN: NOW: THEN: NOW: THEN: NOW:

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If you’ve been looking for a good summary of scholarly opinion on the political future of Iraq, you could do a lot worse than this post by Marc Lynch. Warning: the conclusions derived are, for the most part, not good. But they’re thorough and well-written. UPDATE: Also, this thorough explanation of whywaterboarding is torture and […]

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