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Sorry I’ve been MIA — you’d think making a 5 minute show would be easy, but man, it’s pretty nuts. Speaking of, these guys make a show for the same company and I enjoyed this one a lot:

It’s that day again. The day that wingnuts remind us to NEVER! FORGET! (while conveniently ignoring the plight of uninsured rescue workers still suffering from health effects and those now ineligible for workers’ compensation. But who cares about that when you can wave a little flag?).
Today, also, many of us remember that other thing that […]

Two women were raped last Friday in their dorm rooms at York University, and the rapists tried for a few others before being chased out. I was hesitant to read about the attacks in any detail, figuring that any news coverage would be chock-full of the usual victim-blaming, but I finally caved and checked out […]

An international cartel of Paramount global marketing executives and focus groups decided to give a rather malicious “fuck you!” to remaining WWII veterans by giving G.I. Joe a P.C. makeover for his new movie, something previously unheard of in the whole honorable history of the iconic “action figure”*.
At least, that’s the lens that Devil’s Advocate […]

“How much are YOU WORTH?” A shady computer tech school in my area begins their radio commercials asking people to pause and reflect on that question before going on to imply that a certification in information technology will be worth about 50K right at graduation, and creating a false sense of prestige by saying […]

Just to prove that I’m not an angry curmudgeonly type all the time, I thought that I’d draw your attention to Slate’s adorable article on political crafts. I think that the above cross-stitch is probably my favourite, but I’d love to make a Homeland Security quilt as well (but where would I put it?).
But no […]

Could you be dating a high-maintenance chick, and not even know it? Danger lurks around every corner when you’re dealing with the pussy oversoul. Lucky for you, Lady Margot Carmichael Hunnybunting Lovelace Sycamore-Lester is back with another one of her searingly insightful relationship quoteunquote articles, this one in easy-to-digest quiz form: Is […]

Here’s something neat that you can read in preparation for your inevitable incarceration in Guantanamo Bay—a U.S. Government-funded manual on psychological torture, published in 1961 by John Wiley & Sons.*
It begins with “don’t try this at home” reassurances:
This work might help the armed forces to offset the lack of knowledge that was in part held […]

If you live in North America, you might have gotten a day off today owing to the success of the ruling class in banishing the spectre of labour history from the minds of the toiling masses. You should have actually got May 1st off.
Here are a few drive-by links:
Nihilistic_kid talks about racist and nativist […]