Let’s Go To The Hop. And The Courthouse. And The Jail

$700,000 is a pretty nice chunk of change to be sure, but if I’m going to need to amputate my legs and then tell the insurance company that sepsis got me in order to claim it, I’ll do without, thanks. I guess I’m just not as determined as the now appropriately named Neil Hopper. It …

You Can Cross, But You’ll Want To Watch Out For Self-Driving Teslas

There are variations, but generally, an accessible pedestrian street crossing signal sounds something like this: But for a little while in Redwood City, California, some of them sounded like this: Or in Palo Alto, like this: Those are obviously not the real voices of Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, but I must say that the …

We Aren’t Cancelling Your Comedy Show Because You Hurt Our Feelings? What Is this, An Application For A Writing Job?

I’m not going to sit here and say that Paramount is lying when it says that the decision to cancel the Late Show next year was a financial one. The world has changed a lot this century. The entertainment landscape is much more fragmented now than I think a lot of us ever could have …

Dear Congress: If You Want To Have A Fun Summer, Smoke My Wiener. Signed, Canada

A group of six Republican politicians from Wisconsin and Minnesota took a break from polishing Trump’s knob or whatever it is that Congress does to let the world know that they neither know how the wind works nor that their own country also has forests that sometimes catch on fire, hurting and killing people in the …

Is There A French Word For Epinephrine?

If anything is going to help me get out of yet another posting drought, it’s going to be the need to make Carin aware that hundreds of bees recently attacked a bunch of people and that nobody quite knows why it happened. Several dozen people were injured – with three rushed to hospital in a …

Just Send The Money, Ya Arseholes

As a person with a disability, I should probably have strong opinions on the new Canada Disability Benefit. I don’t, really. A couple extra grand a year isn’t going to fix a whole lot of anything if you’re looking at things systemically since disability rates in this country tend towards being so low they ought …

Why Are You Complaining? It Says & More Right On The Sign

Of all the places you might expect to find a hidden cell phone camera taking video of men using the washroom, who would ever think it could happen at a place called We Spy? On Monday, the Tarpon Springs Police Department said a customer was using the men’s restroom at the “We Spy Coffee & …

I’m Not Bailing You Out, Dad

Knifepoint robbery goes poorly is a story that comes up fairly regularly. But knifepoint robbery goes poorly because the victim recognizes the perpetrator as his dad? I think that might be a new one. The 17-year-old victim had used the cash machine close to his home to withdraw £10. He saw a hooded man dressed …