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From Language Log : The latest development is that a number of courts in the US are now forbidding lawyers and witnesses to use certain word...

They either just passed or are about to pass legislation requiring fire sprinklers in residential highrises. I have one question: can the pe...

We love you George! (Returning to regularly scheduled programming tomorrow.)

The Globe and Mail thinks that La Senza's dropping sales of the ITEC bra and rising sales of cotton bras are a sign of poor economic tim...

There's a sort of conventional wisdom that having a present father is good for a child, and you tend to hear this most and loudest from ...

Two years ago, I issued a Pride Day challenge for factual use of "That is SO gay!" (And no less an authority than The Onion has ...

So Catholic bishops in Alberta are opposed to the cervical cancer vaccine because they think it will encourage girls to have casual sex. Yo...

The bathroom at work has automatic flushing toilets - very enthusiastic automatic flushing toilets that sometimes flush when I've just s...

I wonder why laxatives always market towards women? I've never heard of constipation as a "female problem". I've had a n...

George Carlin died But but but...but...but we still need him!

I was just changing the batteries on my Scrubbing Bubbles, and I realized this is the first time that I have used batteries for anything in ...

Holding Out For A Hero by Bonnie Tyler This is a fun song to sing. It makes you feel kick-ass. (I know that's not quite the message o...

One thing we were told repeatedly in school was that Southern Ontario has some of the best farmland in the country, but it keeps getting use...

I was poking around on Facebook, and saw that a bunch of people I went to high school with have had babies (or at least they were holding ba...

Sometimes when I read a book that was written in the past and set in what was then the present (but is now the past), there are things or id...

I just google for the population of Manitoba. I got three relevant results, then I got one of those "helpful" little Google sugge...

Demetri Martin has a t-shirt that says COMEDY. I want a similar t-shirt that says TRAGEDY. Girl-shaped (preferably v-necked) and dark or de...

You know how the Simpsons changes existing numbers from major musicals just a little bit, so they're still easily recognizable but (pres...

From a perspective of pure heartless military strategy with no consideration for human decency whatsoever, why is rape worth using as a weap...