Dude, I’m never going to become a lawyer

, February 19, 2009

The thirty-fifth edition of “A Thousand Things That Piss Me Off” has just been posted on Shplang. Go ahead and check it out, why don’t you?


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You can hit whoever you like

, February 12, 2009

The thirty-fourth edition of “A Thousand Things That Piss Me Off” is now available on


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Making fun of Eisenhower

, February 6, 2009

The thirty-third edition of “A Thousand Things That Piss Me Off” is now available on Shplang. We’re in the final third of the project now, and at the rate I’m going, it’ll probably reach its end by the spring. Check it out. Three new Righteous Melody strips have also been published this week – this […]


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Writing up a storm

, January 29, 2009

The thirty-second edition of “A Thousand Things That Piss Me Off” has just been posted on Shplang. This one’s heavily dependent on Iron Maiden. I hope you enjoy it. Meanwhile, two new Righteous Melody strips have been posted this week, as per our usual schedule. You can check them out here and here. By the […]


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I hate that purple kangaroo

, January 23, 2009

The thirty-first edition of “A Thousand Things That Piss Me Off” is now available on Shplang. Check it out, why don’t you?


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The Obameter

, January 22, 2009

Hey, remember when I told you about hundreddays.org? Well, cheap laughs aside, here’s a site that might actually be worth following. “PolitiFact has compiled about 500 promises that Barack Obama made during the campaign and is tracking their progress on our Obameter. We rate their status as No Action, In the Works or Stalled. Once […]


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The first hundred days

, January 20, 2009

“Look at all these Obama t-shirts,” Kate said as we were walking up Yonge Street the other night. “Every one of them’s got a different slogan under his picture.” “Yeah,” I said. “I guess there’s no shortage of inspiring words that you can put on a shirt with his face.” “You know what?” she said. […]


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Last chance at an easy target

, January 19, 2009

Better writers than me will no doubt celebrate the significance of Barack Obama becoming the Forty-Fourth President of the United States immediately after Martin Luther King Day. Angrier and/or lazier writers than me, on the other hand, would no doubt prefer to get their cheap shots in against the worst president in history while they […]


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