Yup. I follow him on Twitter and have him on Facebook. He's solid. Your suspicion does you no credit. Just sayin'.

Can I take a moment to point out that my older son is a fifteen-year-old jock, a hockey player who's well-versed in all forms of locker-room talk, yet when I tell him about some of the ways I read about women being harassed on the interwebs, he shakes his head in disgust? He finds it horrible and takes pains to…

That was occasionally the Data's experience.

My favourite teacher was my tenth grade creative writing teacher. I also saw him again in twelfth grade for English and when, instead of a spare that same year, I too the creative writing class again. He listened, wanted us to write huge variety, and was kind.

Exactly. The question isn't is it ironic or not. The question is: would it be responsible for me to take along this thing that I will insist is ironic and then be shocked (shocked, I tell you!) when someone uses it for harassment.

I must agree. How could anyone have printed these stickers up and thought that they would NOT have been used for harassment? Some people just do not think things through.

Keep trolling, bro.

Don't troll me, bro.

It's not the fact at issue. It's the placement of the fact. When asked about the dearth of female characters with strong roles, he moves into an issue of physical strength. However, please go ahead and ignore my point, which is that in my experience, racists, sexists and homophobes want to say racist, sexist and…

I refer to this as the "racist butt" problem. As in, "I'm not racist, but..." followed by something horribly offensive supposedly generalized from anecdotal experience or crap the person saw in the movies.

Check this out, then. It crashed on Firefox for me, but works fine in Chrome.

As my wife and I were falling in love, we bonded over Land of the Lost, Merlin, Star Wars and atheism — all things we discovered between 1974 and 1978. I had lost my Merlin somewhere over the years, and her brother stole and re-sold hers, but eBay is always good for that sort of thing. Made for a great Christmas…

Merlin, the Electronic Wizard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_%28game%29

I'd like, therefore, to propose the new idiomatic expression, "rare as a Chillingham bull." Or "to Chillingham" someone — in the sense of exiling the person to a small group who must be isolated from everyone else such that if someone from the world outside the exiled group touches them, they'll be even further…

Yeah, but the point is I wouldn't run if I figured they would be looking for me. I wouldn't think I could get away with it.

The problem is that these days most people don't know how to flee. Wired's Evan Ratliff had all sorts of resources and know-how, and he made less than a month before being discovered. http://www.wired.com/vanish/

Now I'm hungry...

Really? Because Steven Harper seems in fine health. To be fair, he doesn't seem to have gone after any foreskins yet.

You are clearly deliberately misinterpreting a Biblical passage for your own evil atheistic ends. David brought those foreskins to his leader as proof that he had killed 200 Philistines. If you want an equivalent, you must ask how many Canadian foreskins you would need to bring to President Obama in order to be…

I think that, for example, in the Cambrian period (about 500 million years ago) the Earth was significantly hotter than it is now. If the wording had been something more like "historical low" or "lowest point since we started measuring" then that would have worked better. Which is to say, I think it was a nit-pick.