Yesterday, as is often the case, all the trains were packed. About 4 of them went by until I finally squeezed onto one. Many others were not so lucky, but I was already late for work. At that moment someone on the platform just snapped. He started yelling and threatening the TTC workers, talking about how he's going to come down with a baseball bat ( Read more... )

1. There's a mural on the side of a building in Dundas West that I pass by every day. It's not very good, but it's colourful and better, I suppose, than a brick wall. It's of a cityscape. Someone had written on top in black ink: "Thanks Jesus ( Read more... )

1. Someone explained to me - I forget who - how XLR cables (microphone cables) got their name. The X stands for ground, L for left, and R for right. All these years I've been saying XLR and not knowing what it meant ( Read more... )

when a recipe calls for cayenne does that mean cayenne pepper?

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Jeffery Simpson has echoed Margarate Wente's assertion that "Sun TV," or the Canadian version of Fox News set to launch in the fall, won't make a major impact on the Canadian media landscape. I think both their perspectives give the Canadian audiences too much credit. They say that our right wingers aren't as wacky, extreme, or entertaining as ( Read more... )

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Harper's response is hysterical, unmeasured, and unfounded. Libby Davies is a distinguished and amazing person who does important work for people who actually give a shit and does so in a profession mostly occupied by cynical creeps.

Why is everything around this issue just getting insane? Is this really the new McCarthyism?

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