Guess what, guys? Kate just landed first runner-up in a flash fiction challenge launched by CBC Radio. Join me in congratulating her, won’t you? While you’re at it, do click the link above to read her winning entry.

Did you know that Napalm Death, a metal band from Birmingham that’s been around since 1981, wrote the shortest song ever recorded? “You Suffer,” which appeared on the group’s debut album, is 1.316 seconds long. They made a video for it years later, which you can watch online. Did you also know that the Napalm […]

Hey, remember how the vote in the last mayoral election revealed that the city’s largely split along geographic lines, with the downtown core overwhelmingly opposing our new mayor and the suburbs overwhelmingly supporting him? Well, as Jonathan Goldsbie just pointed out in a post on Spacing, none of the city’s upcoming public meetings on the […]

You know what? I’m pretty sure that title doesn’t require any further clarification. In fact, anything I could add here would probably just dilute the point. So, um… How are you?

Check it out, courtesy of the Star: “At the first substantial city council meeting of his tenure, Mayor Rob Ford will seek Thursday to win council support for three prominent campaign pledges: slashing councillors’ office budgets, abolishing the vehicle registration tax, and asking the province to declare the TTC an essential service.” The first two […]

I’m just saying, you guys. I’ve got no specific reason to believe he will, but because he did it during the last two holiday seasons, I’ve also got no reason to believe he won’t. Are there any votes coming up on any issues on which his party long ago abandoned any sort of credibility? Should […]

As the folks at Crooks and Liars recently noted, Monday marked the tenth anniversary of the day that Bush officially defeated Gore in the 2000 presidential election. It was the closest election of its kind in over a century, and it was only the fourth in which the electoral vote contradicted the popular vote. “Hotly […]

This story has just dropped, so take it for what it’s worth, but doctors have announced that they believe an HIV-positive man named Timothy Ray Brown, who in 2007 underwent a stem cell transplant, has been cured as a result of the procedure. According to their report in the journal Blood, the results of extensive […]

Sarah Palin traveled down to Haiti this past weekend, witnessing for herself the country’s impoverished conditions and its ongoing struggle to rebuild after an earthquake last year. She returned to tell her colleagues at Fox News that Haiti needs the support of Americans “who are more privileged and able to share” what they have. And […]

Saturday night’s edition of Everyone’s a DJ was a great one. Many thanks to the DJs, the bar, and everyone who came down for making our third anniversary party the celebration it deserved to be! It was great to see a lot of new and old faces alike – and it was especially great to […]