Word. Now if only they'd sell me a Fire in Canada. 1st gen, 2nd gen — whatevs. I'd love to have one. Tell your mom for me, just in case she's tired of that old thing.

Season one is on iTunes. It wasn't until recently, so I ordered the DVDs and ripped them so my son could watch them on my iPad. That's it; it was for my son. Sure it was.

I think the thing is that those who end up with antisocial personality disorder often began being diagnosed with ODD and then went on to conduct disorder. The correlation is there, but not anywhere near 100%. Many who begin with ODD "grow out of it." But I'm no more a psychiatrist than you are.

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Somebody's seen Shame, then, I take it.

We know a bullet was fired. We know it hit the "victim's" heart and that the heart subsequently stopped. The question is not, "Did the bullet kill the man?" but rather "Was the man dying anyway?" He had lost his job recently, and his facebook wall posts show us a man grappling with a growing sense of worthlessness…

But couldn't somebody say that another way? "The merit of Apple was to bring the GUI to a limited market. The merit of Microsoft was to bring it to a much wider market." I mean, if it's copying, then both Apple and Microsoft did it.

I am concerned. Nagraj tells us that he sent his snakes inside Albano. They come out of his mouth, but we had a pretty clear view of his mouth in the panels preceding their emergence, and they certainly didn't go in that way.

True, true. Decreases in science funding, attacks on reproductive rights, reneging on climate obligations. Next election ought to take care of it, though.

Where would they go, Canada? Norway?

That line should really be on a t-shirt. And a bumper-sticker.

Which behaviour? I do hope you're not dredging up that accusation of pedophilia for which the Mirror had to print a retraction, and which the local police investigated, eventually concluding that it was baseless.

Amen, brother. As far as I know, it's the contest where two groups of (usually) men struggle against each other to move and object to one end or other of a playing field, while spectators exhort them to do so in a more timely manner.

You're preaching to the choir, pal. If it's time for austerity measures, then close the EQAO for a full decade. We've got enough data to go on, and it hasn't been changing much over the last few years. Their budget is over 30 million. That's not chump-change.

Yeah, I'm certainly not a big proponent of what my daughter, when she was in grade three, learned to call "Evil Questions Attacking Ontario." I think they've improved slightly over the years. The first grade 10 literacy test included a section on the Aurora Borealis. Fine if you live in Sudbury, and your papa took…

Not to mention the fact that pi will just make the poor children hungry.

Did you just use "blazes" as a cuss? That gets you a heart.

I was about to suggest that this sounds like a tempest in a teapot, but then I went and read the article. This is madness. They want to cut any words that will refer to anything at all that people might find controversial, or that they might not feel right about. Utterly crazy. Here in Ontario, we have our own…

Me too. But you can put it on a test any time. I'll deal with the unpleasant feelings.

Like donny0877001 and others, I wanted to point out that Chung Kuo (and other western SF) has done this long ago. But the other thing that bugs me about the Times article is that it has only two examples of this "pattern." And one of them (2066) sounds like nationalistic boosterism.