It's so bizarre that the biggest Somali populations in Canada and the US are in such frickin' cold places (Ottawa has the most here). Who knows why.

That reminds me of a good short story in the Best American series in 2012 with a black protagonist moving to the U.P. for a postdoc position….she feels lonely and isolated as the only black person around but grows attached to a woodsy type that brings her venison. Then again in the UP, maybe everyone's a woodsy type.
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Bats aren't bugs!

DW Griffiths, on the other hand…

Tune in next week I guess?

And thus the life cycle of a basic cable channel in the unregulated wild nears its conclusion…

If he's so anti-Communist, why is his exhibition in St Petersburg, huh?

That's Jeopardedication!

Yeah, how could none of them have known the Gang of Four in China? I'm under 30 and I still knew that !

But salary-wise is it a step down? I'm sure black female comedians are as willing to "sell out" for a payday as any other comedian, on the whole.

I wouldn't rule that out… Win is pretty serious about his hoops http://www.youtube.com/watc…

Classic HDbag

I thought that since she's not a lawyer it would be harder to sue her for lying… could be wrong though.

Hey, at least CBS knows not to put their best shows on hiatus and replace them with hour 672 of the Voice.

Make sure you've got your list of 5 interesting stories ready, apparently it's really important (surprising given how bland most of the contestants are).

Yeah, the Ron plots lately have felt recycled, ironically.

I can see how Canadian Thanksgiving would pale in comparison to US Thanksgiving if you grew up with that. But any occasion for sweet, sweet pie is a good one!

Nitpicky engineer here, replying a week later to say that
*pushes glasses up* centrifugal force isn't actually a force, it's just inertia wanting you to continue along a straight line that's tangent to the circle.
(You probably knew that, since it seems like you know your physics, I just needed to get that on the…

Meanwhile, everyones' wives do the dishes, then stare out the kitchen window at the full moon and think about the day 30 years ago when their college boyfriends decided to shack up with an exotic circus performer.

John Doyle, the TV critic for the Globe and Mail, used Played as an excuse to eviscerate the Canadian TV industry's lack of ambition over the last decade.
http://www.theglobeandmail….
He doesn't mention small scale/ genre stuff like Orphan Black, but as an evaluation of the major networks I think it's fair. It's been a…