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Every once in a while I am reminded of Arthur C. Clarke's maxim that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magi...

to make room on the track for the Schadenfreude Express! Since the lawyers and the judge obviously didn't get through to him, let me p...

This is a real column in a real newspaper, not an article from the Onion or some piece of snark from the Daily Show. And the scary part is ...

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Via Tbogg THOMAS JEFFERSON, a denunciation of slavery, 1785 The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of ...

I bought a house! The East Coast got slammed with a hurricane The Excited States got ready to elect a president. Somehow, it is consider...

I bet you thought I'd forgotten about this little project of mine to read 50 books this year . Admittedly, I seem to have fallen behind,...

Jon Stewart at his absolute finest, he practically has steam coming out of his ears. The Democrats should be airing this morning noon and ni...

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Think of them as analog Kindles, Nooks, or Kobos, or like really long blogs posts that you have printed off to read later. Tweet

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Is there anything more tedious than a professional contrarian with a newspaper column? You know the type, they are everywhere - those who ca...

 These are photos from Mars, taken by a nuclear-powered truck that a bunch of hairless monkeys landed there by remote-control sky-crane...

Conservative legacy hire Peter MacKay, Minister of Defence and CPC capo for Atlantic Canada, gives a speech at the French Embassy on Bastil...

Someone thinks this story should make you angry about the big bad government and how it discriminates against poor persecuted Christians an...

Then Lord Tubby would certainly get one, with crossed swords, oak leaf clusters and bar. But they don't. People who renounce their ...

This photo of Finance Minister Jim Flaherty with Canada's last penny cost taxpayers $56,000.  That is more than many rank and file ...

While we in Canada had a crown-wearing Beaver for our national birthday Google Doodle, our neighbours to the south were treated to the work ...

I am enjoying Aaron Sorkin's new series The Newsroom. He pretty much had me at "It's not" however, I will be listen...