Author archive

Pejorative of the year    (2011.09.26)

Namefags

What’s Mark Steyn complaining about now?    (2011.09.20)

Mark Steyn’s endless peeves in After America

‘War Horse’ puppet creators: We understand repression    (2011.09.20)

(Adrien Kohler and) Basil Jones: “As gay people, we understand prejudice and, as South Africans, we understand prejudice”

The browser Find command    (2011.09.18)

“90%+” of people do not know how to search for text in their browsers. OK: Are we talking Windoids only here?

Keep your mongrels away from wolverines    (2011.09.18)

Globe and Mail editorial: “A pet perambulating on its own is not a citizen and, as a general principle, has no right to state protection from wild animals.”

Everyone’s a critic of book covers    (2011.09.18)

How the Globe’s nonexpert critiques two business-book covers

Margaret Thatcher, design critic    (2011.09.16)

Did Margaret Thatcher really cover up John Sorrell’s “ethnic” British Airways tailfins on sight?

‘Don’t Quit Your Gay Job’    (2011.09.16)

Don’t Quit Your Gay Job has no business being as good as it is. But must the cohosts shill for one of its broadcaster’s few advertisers?

Ten things wrong with the Twitters    (2011.09.15)

According to Baldur Bjarnasson