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New: 1. The Queen's Bed: An Intimate History of Elizabeth's Court by Anna Whitelock 2. The Glitter and the Gold: The American Duc...

In this past election, Toronto had a ridiculous number of mayoral candidates and a ridiculous number of mayoral debates . But, for the va...

A non-descript fall day for a very descript municipal election. As I've blogged about before, I have a superstition that I need to pet...

I was pleased to see that there's a Vote Compass for the Toronto mayoral election , but I was disappointed that it only compared your po...

The question in this week's Ethicist is interesting : According to press reports, Koko, the gorilla adept at sign language, seemed s...

I tweeted this story when it happened, so it might be familiar to some of you.  Disclaimer: I do recognize the flaws in my thinking in this ...

Wouldn't it be interesting if we could objectively measure and quantify luck, and you could know exactly how much good or bad luck was i...

Attention Sarfraz Khan, Bob Murphy, and James O'Shaughnessy: I am a Ward 22 voter, and I don't feel I can vote for the position of...

There are currently 4 candidates for city councillor in my ward: the incumbent and 3 challengers. The incumbent has the expected online pr...

New: 1. Delusion in Death by J.D. Robb 2. North of the DMZ: Essays on Daily Life in North Korea by Andrei Lankov 3. The Orenda by Joseph...

A piece of conventional wisdom I've been hearing ever since I was a child that higher marginal income tax rates for higher tax brackets ...

On his first day as mayor, Rob Ford came into work early and killed Transit City. With all the other things that happened since then, I...

For the last couple of weeks, when I try to type a reply in Gmail, typing is really slow.  The letters are appearing at about half the speed...

My favourite mascara is Rimmel Lash Accelerator.  I needed a new tube recently, and when I looked in the store I was surprised to discover t...

From a blog post by Scott Adams that's otherwise irrelevant to what I'm writing about here: For starters, I don't know any me...

I recently tried a different style of Jockey underwear (updated my comparison post accordingly), and when I looked at the tag to see the st...

Eric Idle retweeted me! Screenshot: The original link can be found here , but it's not as obvious from a direct link to the tweet i...

New: 1. Crazy Town: The Rob Ford Story by Robyn Doolittle 2. The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith (a.k.a. J.K. Rowling) 3. The Unquiet (shor...

The other day, I had a day where I felt like I got nothing done.  I kept falling down the internet rabbit hole and getting caught up in gami...