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Horoscopes Monkey Trial: Horoscopes Monkey Trial: Your week 7 - 13 June 2010
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Sunday, June 6, 2010. Horoscopes Monkey Trial: Your week 7 - 13 June 2010. 7 - 13 JUNE 2010. You will find it difficult to sleep without the aid of a lullaby. Hold your breath until you turn blue this week. Then join the Blue Man Group. The Taurus with a thirst for knowledge can expect humidity and a high of 25 degrees on Wednesday. Untold horrors will rain down upon all those who misspell the word 'barbecue'. Try to budget yourself this week. Don't spend too much money on peanut butter or raisins...
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The worst songs in the world... ever!: "We are the World 25 for Haiti" by Artists for Haiti (2010)
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The worst songs in the world. ever! Saturday, February 27, 2010. We are the World 25 for Haiti" by Artists for Haiti (2010). Well, I've already talked about the aesthetic tragedy that is the 'charity single'. Just to underline the message I feel compelled to repeat again and again, charity singles are for very good causes and are definitely worthwhile things to do. But this record sucks. Big. How does it compare to the original? The whole mess gets going with Justin Bieber. Where you can donate a truly w...
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Poll Vaulting: Canada: Un-Cult of Un-Personality
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010. Canada: Un-Cult of Un-Personality. Image by John Hansen. Measurable, and I think you could make some good arguments that it's not, support for Michael Ignatieff is abysmal. The man is just not very popular - not even within his own party. I have an EKOS poll. That's a few weeks old that tells much the same story - but check out the partisan numbers:. Nationwide: 43% approve, 26% disapprove, 31% DK/NR. NDP: 69% approve, 11% disapprove, 20% DK/NR. The third question is something on...
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The worst songs in the world... ever!: "Barbara Ann" by the Beach Boys (1965)
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The worst songs in the world. ever! Thursday, August 20, 2009. Barbara Ann" by the Beach Boys (1965). Ah yes, “Pet Sounds”. It truly is. As wonderful as everyone says it is. “Caroline, No” melts your heart into a tiny puddle. “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” confirms to you that music can. Bring eternal youth. Even “Sloop John B”, strangely maligned, is in my opinion great. After it. But it wasn’t an embarrassment either. When it stiffed, the record company put out this. The pile of rubbish and drove the single to ...
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The best songs in the world... ever!: "Birthday" by the Sugarcubes (1987)
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The best songs in the world. ever! Saturday, April 24, 2010. Birthday" by the Sugarcubes (1987). Shrug I was the only person in my high school of that opinion, if I can test your credibility by actually claiming that enough people in an Ontario high school knew of the Sugarcubes to hold discussions. The album is far from perfect. It startes to get a bit repetitive towards the end, and of course Einar Örn grates like fingernails on a million chalkboards. It's not a classic album. But this. Reflection of h...
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Poll Vaulting: February 2011
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Thursday, February 10, 2011. A seventh: the Reform party comtended the 1988 election, but as a relatively minor party that took no seats. I don't include the 1988 election, because it ruins the narrative: one of the PC imploding spectacularly and two parties being born as a result, one of which is called Reform. Canadian electoral history is divided into pre-1993 and post-1993. So 1988 is 'old-school'. Irrelevant. If this party just didn't exist, where would the Albertan vote go? High margins of victory,...
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A Proper Blog: The magazine rack: March 1975
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Monday, April 19, 2010. The magazine rack: March 1975. I can't take much credit for this entry, really. It's my reaction to finding coverbrowser.com. A site that's not overly attractive in appearance but is an amazing inventory of comic and magazine covers. They claim to have almost half a million covers. I looked at some of the comics, but it seems that comics don't tend to put dates on the covers. Months, maybe, but not years. So I scrapped the comics. Was in a shouting mood, declaiming 'American Jews ...
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Better as a Single: Better as a Single: "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood
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Friday, January 8, 2010. Better as a Single: "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood. It's difficult to imagine a phenomenon so large leaving so little legacy. But from the perspective of 2010, it's all but impossible to imagine just how large. To release a double album as their début. It sold over a million on pre-release. In the UK alone. They had their own video game. Even their t-shirts. Were social signifiers. And then? What did they leave behind? Welcome to the Pleasuredome.
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A Lust for Lists: Ten Fetishes and Paraphilias
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Tuesday, November 23, 2010. Ten Fetishes and Paraphilias. Of them, objective as we might want to be, are capable of provoking spontaneous giggling. The name translates from the Japanese as 'Ball kicking', and that tells you all you need to know, really. It's a paraphilia, and also a genre of pornography involving women abusing men by their testicles, marketed to masochistic men excited by the prospect. Er, enough said. This concept describes a variety of clothing-related sexual fetishes. Usually skin...
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Poll Vaulting: 2008 Alternate Scenarios #1: D'Hondt, Part One
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011. 2008 Alternate Scenarios #1: D'Hondt, Part One. Be that way, but that's how it's applied generally. Now, 2008 gave is the following result:. A simple nation-wide proportional representation calculation using the D'Hondt method would have returned this:. Which is a huge decrease for the Conservatives and the BQ but a huge increase for the NDP and Greens. I'm surprised to find the Liberals actually gaining. Seats in a prop-rep simulation. Newfoundland and Labrador: Lib 4. The sm...
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