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I Think He and Clarence Thomas Have Become Drinking Buddies

US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia recently spoke at Harvard and said the expected: that recent decisions protecting abortion rights,

upholding the legalization of assisted suicide and striking down

anti-sodomy laws represent a dangerous trend.

But he also said something unexpected: I even take the position that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.”

For a man who’s this close to saying “the missionary position — not just a good idea, it’s the law!” this is quite surprising.

Clearly the man hasn’t seen The Ice Storm, and he must’ve been a total Poindexter when he attended Harvard.

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Boston This Weekend!

I’m off to Boston this weekend to celebrate The Redhead’s

30th birthday! As is the tradition on this blog, I like to accompany

Beantown trip announcements with my favourite photo of Boston Common…

The city of The Red Sox, the Bruins, Ally McBeal and Fried Dough (“It’s wicked fried!”). It’s also the first North American city I lived in.

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BlogACatMas

Ladies and Gentlemen, here are my submissions for BlogACatMas. a.k.a. “Post a picture of cat to your blog” day, a tradition Ross and I started last year

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Look Out Chick, There’s a New Sheriff in Town!

Never mind Jack Chick’s hopelessly 20th-century tracts; Tim Todd Ministries’ cartoons are slicker and their manga-influenced style better reflects the aesthetic sensibilities of the 21st century’s comic book readers.

For you traditionalists, don’t let the modern look vex you: the basic message is still safely rooted somewhere in the 13th century: Gays: bad! Secular rock music: bad! Evolution: lies!

But wow, is the artwork and storytelling so much better. Jack Chick’s grasp of pop culture is far too weak to have come up with “Madonna Dahmer”, the parody of Marilyn Manson that appears in the Tim Todd Ministries comic. And neither he nor the artist who does his more “realistic-looking” comics can hold a candle to whoever’s penciling and inking the Tim Todd stuff. Even if you don’t agree with the message, you’ve got to admit that he’s trumped Chick in the slickness department.

My favourite panel is shown below: a paramedic explains to a boy who think he might be gay that saying “hey, we’re born that way” is a lame-o excuse. Todd’s homophobe-fu is so much slicker than Chick’s homophobe-fu.

“When I was a homosexual 30 years ago?” That moustache and ten bucks says you were homosexual 30 seconds ago!

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This Game Will Drive You Bonkers

It seems so simple: just use your mouse to move the dot through the maze to the goal [Flash required].

(A helpful hint: You should turn down your speakers for level 2.)

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BlogACatMas This Friday!

It may be only a one-year-old tradition, but it’s still a tradition! Last year, Boss Ross and I declared that the first Friday in October shall be “Post a Cat on Your Blog Day”, or more simply, BlogACatMas.

Yeah, posting a picture of a cat is nearly as old as blogging itself,

but we figured why not have a designated special day for that most bloggy of blog practices?

Here’s some inspiration:

…and for more inspiration, here’s my submission from last year, a creepy Flash animation featuring cats giving the evil eye

So gather your kitty pictures, because Friday’s the day!

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It Happened to Me

If you’re taking a University-level math course, read this comic