Galileo Five (swoon…)

Because posting YouTube videos to this blog is much easier than thinking of creative and interesting original posts, I now present what will likely be a recurring theme: scenes from The West Wing that I really like.
This one’s the opening from Season 2, Episode 9 (“Galileo”).
It’s one of my favourites from the whole series, and [...]

How to pick up a girl using a Rubik’s Cube

I saw this go down a while ago on the bus.
Apparently commuter chicks love this kind of thing, so I’ve posted a step-by-step how-to for all you single, Rubik’s Cube loving guys out there.
1)    Board the bus. Spot girl of your choosing and sit down across from her. Nonchalantly pull out your Rubik’s Cube and [...]

There’s only one true celebrity on Celebrity Apprentice:

I just wanted to share with you my favourite person in the world:

Tina: Toronto’s Celeb-Watcher 001

Al Gore Spits Knowledge… Gay Knowledge

Where has Al Gore been throughout the whole election process.  Well, apparently the question has been answered: coming to a perfectly reasonable conclusion on same sex marriage.  Here he is in his own words:
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 (h/t Politico)
Also: many thanks to Matthew for a [...]

U-PASS : Get in the know

Well, the recent U-Pass town hall has been getting a lot of coverage. Mainstream blogs have been covering the proposal where U of T (St George) students would pay a flat rate along with their regular student fees (an extra $480) for open reign on the TTC during the school months. Torontoist writer Jonathan [...]

Apparently Ron Paul inherited Dr. King’s Legacy

So for my first post i thought I’d link to this video which I found to be quite incredible to be honest, and make sure you watch all nine and a half minutes of it. It’s worth it.

Oh and by the way I heart Ron Paul…..ok maybe not, but still.

[Political] Nerd Humour

The internet is saturated with nerd humour.  Sites like somethingawful.com and ytmnd.com have built their sites on the strange senses of humour of nerds everywhere (see Dan Horn’s friends that he brought to the Lit last year).
And so, in an effort to level the playing field to the advantage of political nerds (like me), I now present to [...]

Hitchens Takes a Swing…

at Hillary Clinton:

Indifferent to truth, willing to use police-state tactics and vulgar libels against inconvenient witnesses, hopeless on health care, and flippant and fast and loose with national security: The case against Hillary Clinton for president is open-and-shut. Of course, against all these considerations you might prefer the newly fashionable and more media-weighty notion that [...]

The Vegetable Orchestra

 Maybe skip the first forty seconds to the part where they start fashioning their instruments.

Now THAT’S what I call ‘exhibition cooking’. Take note, Sodexho.
(more here)