Dustin Harbin wrote a very good post about yesterday’s Scott Kurtz dustup and I wanted to respond to it, because Harbin constructs a reasonable argument and I try to respond to reasonable arguments with honest dialogue. And, in fairness, Dustin is not the only one to take issue with the tone I used in writing […]

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So I was watching The Avengers again over the weekend and during one of the fight sequences, there is of course a Wilhelm Scream. This was not something I failed to miss the first time I watched the movie. More precisely, when I watched The Avengers the first time through and the Wilhelm Scream happened, […]

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So yesterday Scott Kurtz posted a typically Kurtzian post about how those who were arguing that: 1.) Jack Kirby’s estate is not getting the share of funds derived from the various properties Kirby helped create for Marvel, and 2.) this is wrong, are, basically, self-important assholes. Of course, because this is Scott Kurtz, it’s not […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Torontoist asked me to review the OIRPD’s report on police overreaction during the G20 summit here in Toronto, so I did.

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Zach Butler, a while back, asked: So how’s being a lawyer going? Well. I work here. The thing about family law that the casual reader may not understand is that in law school, I’m pretty sure there isn’t another branch of law where you will hear more horror stories – many of them from former […]

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So apparently George W. Bush plans to “publish a book outlining strategies for economic growth.” No. Really. Prospective titles for this book include Don’t Know Much About (Economic) History, The One Percent Solution,, and Hey, If You Turn That Chart Upside Down It Looks Great!

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She starts by asserting that Winter Wipeout is proof that gay people want heteros to suffer and… it actually manages to go downhill from there. Also, watch the guy behind her. His reactions are hilarious.

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Yesterday on Twitter Ezra Klein wrote: Now, granted, at 36 I am only “young” in the sense that if I died tomorrow people would say “oh, such a shame, he was so young,” but that type of young lasts until you’re in your early fifties, at which point by no other metric are you considered […]

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