You know you're a Doctor Who fan if this rumor makes you sick to your stomach because you so want it to be true.

You are going to will have done the work of angels.

The War of 1812 - the Americans think they won it, the Canadians think they won it, and the British have no idea they fought it.

I desperately want to see the complete 10th Planet and (at the bare minimum) first episode of Power of the Daleks. The transition from Bill to Pat has always fascinated me and to see it for real? Would be a dream!

UELs were United Empire Loyalists, colonists who opposed the formation of the United States. After the Revolution a lot of them moved to the British colonies in what is now Canada. After the War of 1812, a bunch of them formed the Family Compact, who were the sort of arch-conservative moronic Tory that gives…

I am charming! I wasn't sure that came across online.

To be honest, I haven't done much in the last 200 years, as I spent the first 160 of them being all lazy and not born and stuff. Actually, I suppose if I *had* been doing something the last 200 years, that in itself would have been noteworthy, but alas, no.

Well, there was this recent awesome Canadian event.

Yeah I don't get that, regardless of who nominally ruled Canada at the time, it was the actual people on the ground who kicked ami ass. Do they think that in 1867 a buncha new people moved in and said 'hey we're the Canadians'? My family was here for generations before confederation, so why would that history of them,…

Okay, I finally have a reason to time travel. I will fix all of this by going back in time, convincing the British government to ease on the tax issue, keeping everyone friendly and uniting both of these modern nations into an industrial super power that will save the world. Also, bacon. Because the streaky strips of…

Well, it's time to pull the plug on the internet now. Goodbye everyone!

The US did invade. What the US didn't do is win anything beyond status quo ante bellum. This was thanks to factors nobody could have predicted beforehand, like how the settlers of Upper Canada (many of whom were non-UEL Americans who came up for the cheap land after the American Revolution and who had no particular…

My heart grew two sizes today!

Ha! This is exactly what my family will look like when our son is born this fall. *sniffle*

There is nothing not awesome about this video.

I teach middle school, and this is only sometimes true. The girls are relatively uniform in size (as much as a group ever is), but the boys range from "he might be 8" to "full-bearded woodsman."

I know she was kidding. I was kidding too.

Now I have survivor's guilt.

One of the first things I learned when I developed a nut allergy as a kid was that I could not swap food with other kids, and that I needed to know where my food came from. I still don't eat suspicious snack mixes at parties, and I never touch baked goods I'm not 100% sure of. Besides that quickly learned lesson I…