We’ve been hearing for some time that many people, particularly young people, count The Daily Show as their only regular source of news. I don’t care how smart Stewart is — that fact still scares me. It scares me not because Stewart is a funnyman — as he pointed out in his argument with Tucker [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that a bust of former KC Royals slugger George Brett was stolen — probably for some serious, serious cash. The missing bust was found in a cardboard box in a ditch.
Thank you, Jesus. Thank you very much indeed.
I’d also like to give a big shout-out to [...]
Greenpeace has launched a site going after Apple for its environmental practices, which are apparently particularly bad. I find it interesting that they bend over backwards to suggest that Apple’s a great company, and that they love Apple. That says a lot about Apple’s brand power as somehow “nicer” than Microsoft/Dell/etc.
If its environmental practices really [...]
That’s what you get when you scramble the letters in Tie Domi’s name. Me Idiot.
Another anagram for the former Leaf enforcer’s name is “I Do Time”, which makes sense for a guy that plied his trade as one of hockey’s greatest goons. I think the CBC was saying he was the second most penalized player [...]
Well, it got my attention, anyway.
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Apparently Yahoo! has offered Facebook about $900,000,000 to aquire the company which is, like MySpace, a virtual kegger party that all the grownups are trying to crash.
Nine. Hundred. Million. Fucking. Dollars. And it still might not be enough for Mark Zuckerburg, the 22-year-old wizard behind Facebook’s curtain — not because he’s greedy, it seems, but [...]
London, Ontario, that is.
Waste management is a big story that will keep getting bigger. But in my town, the world’s dirtiest job is a soap opera.
The latest? Toronto Mayor David Miller has announced plans to buy a landfill site in London, to which Toronto will ship its trash. The plan stems from the failure of [...]
Prime Minister Stephen Harper called the recent Montreal shootings “a cowardly and senseless act of violence”. Nice to know that our P.M. isn’t afraid to take such a controversial position — that a gun-toting would-be mass killer is cowardly, senseless and, er, violent. Banality aside, what really irritates me is that I think he may [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Sometimes the Onion nails it. This is one of those times.
“From the wreckage and ashes of the World Trade Center, we have created a recess in the ground befitting the American spirit,” said New York Governor George Pataki from a cinderblock-and-plastic-bucket-supported plywood platform near the Hole’s precipice. “This vast chasm, dug at the very [...]
