This is awesome.

Senator McCain says Iraq is so improved that the American commander can travel unarmed - but I’ve just returned from Iraq, and that’s ludicrous.
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This just in: the dumbest band in history is being dragged, kicking and screaming, into 5 years ago.
Lars Ulrich, the combustible (oh, if only! - ed.) drummer of heavy-metal band Metallica and long-time critic of file sharing, has apparently changed some of his views towards the Internet and digital music.
In an interview with Rolling Stone [...]

I’m not sure where it got its credibility all of a sudden, but legendary illegal boozecan The Matador was slated to be razed for a parking lot. The ensuing media pile-on has been nothing short of a farce.
Even generally balanced sources like the Torontoist(read here) have managed to get this story at least partially [...]

Water, that is. And maybe a lawyer. That’s what a Union City, Georgia cop might be telling himself today following the arrest of a local McDonald’s employee.

Yes, as if working at McDonald’s wasn’t enough of a pain in the ass, apparently you can now get tossed in jail on obscure charges of burger hypersalination.

UNION CITY, [...]

Stephen Harper shows yet again why he’s not fit to run a church rummage sale, let alone a country. This is a guy who could start an argument in a cuddle puddle at a 4-day rave called “Destiny IV: PLURality”:
OTTAWA (CP) - Prime Minister Stephen Harper is upping the ante in the high-stakes dispute over [...]

Update: I got news via Matt McKinnon: Radar Magazine notes that Sasha Frere-Jones has altered his cyber-begging post. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, your lame post may be gone, sir, but you’re still a total cockwad.
How Sasha Frere-Jones made the bloggerton Weasel Watch in 4 easy steps.

Smart New Yorker music journalist also likes to take mostly [...]

I’m honestly speechless.
Reports are emerging from members of the movie industry that the Department of Homeland Security has designated the 1982 film TRON as “sensitive”, and ordered Walt Disney Studios to turn over all copies of the film in its posession. Retailers are also receiving notices to remove all copies of the film from stock [...]

A global quality of life survey has placed Vancouver as the third-best place to live.
No, not in B.C. Not even in Canada. In the world.
What were the survey criteria? I can just imagine it…
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I go to sleep at 8pm because there’s bugger all else to do.
I [...]