Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

This blog will pay for itself.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

The revolution will be supervised.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

Not all heroes wear capes.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Come on, man.

This really is a full service blog.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

Let there be snark.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

In my day, never was longer.

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  5. 5.

    scav

    They could send us some of those frigid cold fronts they’re usually so generous with in February. Like, now? Use the West Door.

  9. 9.

    Redshirt

    Canada has an incredibly high percentage of awesome people compared to overall population.

    Thus, once can conclude, Canada is awesome.

    As a Mainer, I like to think of myself as semi-Canadian, and I’m a better person for it!

  15. 15.

    Joey Giraud

    William Shatner… especially him.

    And we forgive you for Rush…

    What’s that? It was the *band* that came from Canada? Not the radio clown?

    Never mind..

  16. 16.

    Redshirt

    @Comrade Dread: Fun fact to know and share: The movie “Strange Brew” is a re-telling of Hamlet. A very literal re-telling. Bob and Doug and Rosencrantz and Guilderstein. The heiress of the brewery is Hamlet. The brewery setting is named “Elsinore”.

    The mouse in the bottle is….

  17. 17.

    Comrade Mary

    @Goblue72: Canadian craft beer (the real thing, not Rickard’s and the like) is pretty damn fine.

    But we don’t provide free beer to all our schoolchildren via federal mandate, which, of course, makes us history’s greatest monsters.

  19. 19.

    jon

    Mexico has universal health care. Canada was there first, but when we get beaten by Mexico it’s supposed to be in sports where the ball isn’t touched by most players’ hands, not public health programs.

    As for the beer: I’ll take a Negra Modelo over any mass-produced American or Canadian brew. There are many good beers on this continent, but not a single great beer nation. (I’m proud to be a beer snob, pay for the privilege, and Budweiser gives me a runny nose.)

  20. 20.

    Redshirt

    Yeah, the one thing I’ve really been surprised during my trips to Canada is the relatively poor beer selections. I spend time in PEI and I’ve yet to find a store that sells more than the standard Canadian mega-brews. Maybe I’m not looking hard enough.

  21. 21.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @HelloRochester: Yeah, the whole Canadian take on tar sands and Keystone has been pretty depressing. Have Darryl Hannah and Bill McKibben directed any of their outrage at Stephen Harper?

  22. 22.

    muddy

    Hat? Probably more of a toque (tooook). In the early 80’s we used to import our own beer from Canada. Brador for the win!

  27. 27.

    pokeyblow

    Canada doesn’t have Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Kansas, etc.

    We can learn from them.

  28. 28.

    Soonergrunt

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Why is that? It’s a national natural resource that they want to exploit. Where is it written that anybody in any country, let alone Canadians, has to be better or more moral than Americans?

  30. 30.

    Cassidy

    Sum 41, Billy Talent, motherfucking Kids in the Hall….you’re awright Canadia.

  31. 31.

    Forum Transmitted Disease

    Canada doesn’t have Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Kansas, etc.

    We can learn from them.

    @pokeyblow: They have Alberta, which is like an unholy union of Texas and Idaho.

    Plenty of fucktardery to our north.

  32. 32.

    Yatsuno

    Still my favourite version. Gotta check with Dad on how serious he is about repatriating.

    EDIT: I always thought this whole week should be a big holiday in both countries. What with our national days within three days of each other and all.

    @Cassidy: Canadian men are no slouches either. Especially big burly defencemen, but that’s my personal bias there. Carrie Underwood married quite well.

    @Just One More Canuck: What no love for timbits??

  36. 36.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Soonergrunt: It’s a national natural resource that is dangerous to their nation, ours and the whole planet. My point is that activists should hold Harper and his gov’t to the same standard they hold Obama.

  38. 38.

    JGabriel

    FP via HelloRochester:

    Over the last decade, Canada has not so quietly become an international mining center and a rogue petrostate. … With oil and gas now accounting for approximately a quarter of its export revenue, Canada has lost its famous politeness. … Deposits of the badly degraded asphalt-like [bitumen] lie under a forest the size of Florida in northeastern Alberta and comprise the world’s third-largest petroleum reserves.

    Whoa, you guys have that much oil? On second thought, Canada, you probably should take steps to make sure you don’t get invaded next time the US has a Republican president.

    .

  39. 39.

    Redshirt

    @raven: I don’t fish. It seems cruel to me, toying with the fish so. I’m a super hippy, for the record.

    I did golf, and wow there are some awesome courses on PEI.

  40. 40.

    SmallAxe

    @Forum Transmitted Disease:

    Also too, TransCanada which rivals Exxon for A-holery. Setting aside the horrific environmental issues with Keystone, remind me again why we should back a Canadian Co. with US taxpayer dollars? (I’m a rare dual citizen btw so feel I can say this with some authority)

    Went to the the Canadian Day celebration at the Embassy today in DC, Alberta theme complete with RCMP mounties on horseback with Pancakes and Canadian bacon. Alberta’s good for some things I guess.

  42. 42.

    raven

    And for all you hockey freaks, the NBA draft outdrew 2 of the NHL championship games and there were basically no superstars in the draft this year.

  43. 43.

    Roger Moore

    @jon:

    There are many good beers on this continent, but not a single great beer nation.

    I think there’s really only one great beer nation: Belgium.

  44. 44.

    Svensker

    @Redshirt:

    The thing is, the big stores don’t carry the craft beers. You have to go to pubs or the brewery itself. It’s a dumb thing.

    On the other hand, there’s the whole health care thing and the not invading Iraq thing…

  46. 46.

    gene108

    I will never forgive Canadians for burning down the White House and blaming it on the British.

  47. 47.

    Redshirt

    @Svensker: That’s strange, and bad for the Canadian craft brew industry. I assume this is some kind of lobbying effort by the big breweries, since all beer is sold through state stores?

  50. 50.

    Southern Beale

    Oh Canada! We’re so jealous of your universal healthcare.

    Here in the U.S. we have Republican Senators Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn telling the heads of the major pro sports leagues to not help the Obama Administration promote Obamacare enrollment! What unbelievable ASSHOLES:

    N.F.L. Won’t Promote Enrollment in Health Insurance Under New Law

    Is there anything more hilarious than when a Republican loses?

    JENNIFER PRESTON
    Published: June 29, 2013

    The National Football League is not participating in an effort with the Obama administration to help promote enrollment in health insurance plans under the new health care law, a spokesman said. The statement came after two Republican Senate leaders wrote to the heads of six major professional sports organizations, including the N.F.L., expressing concern that they would help encourage people to sign up in the new health insurance programs set to begin next month. Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary for health and human services, has been in talks with various groups to help with enrollment efforts. But the senators, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and John Cornyn of Texas, warned that doing so might not be a good idea. “Given the divisiveness and persistent unpopularity of the health care law, it is difficult to understand why an organization like yours would risk damaging its inclusive and apolitical brand by lending its name to its promotion,” the senators wrote.

  51. 51.

    SmallAxe

    @Redshirt:

    I know in Ontario at least the beer stores carry a bunch of the micro brews. I dig Upper Canada and Sleemans.

  54. 54.

    patroclus

    Ever since that Diefenbacher terminated the Avro Arrow with no compunction, everything in Canada has pretty much turned to shit.

  58. 58.

    forked tongue

    On the up side, Canada gave us SCTV, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, 4/5 of The Band, and David Cronenberg.

    On the down side, she gave us my ex-wife.

    On balance, I’d have to say Canada has been a bane to humanity.

  59. 59.

    Roger Moore

    @TOP123:
    Sorry, but mass produced shit beer is still mass produced shit beer, whether it’s labeled Budweiser, Watney’s Red Barrel, or Spaten. The English may be too stubborn to admit that Belgium is head and shoulders above them when it comes to beer quality, but the Germans I’ve asked about it will admit it when pressed.

  64. 64.

    Svensker

    @Redshirt:

    Perhaps it’s only Ontario that has this bizarre beer thing happening. The “Beer Store” which is where 98% of retail beer is sold in Ontario, is owned by Anheuser-Busch, Sapporo and Molson Coors. It’s a government endorsed monopoly: and is not only very restrictive of what beers one can buy, but also supremely unpleasant to shop in. It’s like a Soviet store.

  67. 67.

    SmallAxe

    @forked tongue:

    Up side adds: Rush, Bare Naked Ladies, Tragically Hip, Pam Anderson, Elisha Cuthbert, Rachel McAdams and Evangeline Lily.

    Down Sides: Alanis Morriset, Celine Dion Bryan Adams and Bieber…

    Second thought you’re right!

  68. 68.

    Lurking Canadian

    @JGabriel: Eh. If you don’t come for the oil, you’ll come for the water. It’s inevitable.

    The other option, of course is that Alberta will secede and apply for statehood. That would save you the trouble of an invasion.

  70. 70.

    Betty Cracker

    @srv: From your link:

    Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Mr Snowden was welcome to stay as long as he stopped “inflicting damage on our American partners.”

    LOLWUT?

  72. 72.

    TOP123

    @Roger Moore: Agreed, mass produced shit beer is shit beer the world ’round, though you haven’t tried mass produced shit beer till you’ve tried Korean mass produced shit beer. That said, Watney’s isn’t exactly what I had in mind; more like barrel conditioned bitters from England, alts, rauchbier, and others from Germany–and though I love wits from Belgium as well, there’s a reason Weihenstephaner Hefe-Weiss has been around so long…

    BUT I must confess, Belgium is actually my first beer love!

  73. 73.

    Lurking Canadian

    @Svensker: Where in Ontario are you shopping? Yes, The Beer Store is a monopoly owned by large brewers, and yes, the customer service is…idiosyncratic, but you can usually get a pretty good variety.

    And what they don’t have, the LCBO usually has. I’m not sure which particular brand you aren’t finding, but it’s not like you can only choose between Blue and Canadian.

  75. 75.

    Mnemosyne

    @Betty Cracker:

    I think this is the end result similar to the old joke where the dental patient grabs the dentist by the balls before he starts working and says, “Now, we’re not going to hurt each other, are we, doctor?” IOW, we know more than enough damaging information about Russia to make it very unpleasant for them to release damaging information about us, plus we have enough economic ties to pull a few strings on that front as well.

    It was weird to have Ecuador talk about getting better trade status in exchange for not sheltering Snowden as “extortion.” It sounded like good old-fashioned bribery to me.

  77. 77.

    CanadaGoose

    @SmallAxe: Dual citizen here, too. There is NO benefit to the US for the Keystone pipeline. None. No benefit for 98% of Canadians either.

  79. 79.

    burnspbesq

    Canada, we also thank you for Joni Mitchell, Bruce Cockburn, k.d. lang, and Kathleen Edwards.

    Bachman-Turner Overdrive and Shania Twain, not so much.

  81. 81.

    burnspbesq

    Canada is the only country on earth that could have made Mark Steyn the poster-boy for freedom of expression.

  84. 84.

    Roger Moore

    @TOP123:

    That said, Watney’s isn’t exactly what I had in mind; more like barrel conditioned bitters from England, alts, rauchbier, and others from Germany

    Sure, but if you’re going to look at that stuff, you also have to look at the best American craft brews, which are frankly amazing. American craft brewers are busy inventing all kinds of new styles and creating a genuinely American style. If I had to pick one thing that makes Belgium stand apart, though, it’s that they’re doing both things. No other country with such a rich brewing tradition- and face it, Belgium is way up at the top in that respect- is also so far on the forefront of creating new styles.

  85. 85.

    burnspbesq

    @pokeyblow:

    Canada doesn’t have Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Kansas, etc.

    No, but they have Alberta, which is every bit as reactionary and one of the world’s worst eco-criminals to boot.

  86. 86.

    Elie

    I live up near the Canadian border in WA state and am very fond of our Canadian neighbors and plenty who come across the border to shop and vacation.

    One word of caution to my Canadian friends: those Albertan oil sands bring wealth, but also environmental destruction and all the things that accompany greed. Learn from the US lesson — please do not immitate us — though I fear you are.

  87. 87.

    Tokyokie

    And before I got diverted by the conglomerate beer discussion, I meant to point out that I amaze (and concern) my acquaintances by being able to sing O Canada in French.

  89. 89.

    Svensker

    @Lurking Canadian:

    We’re in Cabbagetown. There’s a big Beer Store near us and it does have a lot of different beers. But the things the pub down the street has, you can’t buy there. And there are a couple of local breweries that can’t sell there. It’s a dumb system. And the stores are the least customer friendly places I’ve ever been. Not that the people aren’t nice — they are — just that you can’t look at anything, just a bunch of labels on the wall. I hate that store.

    The LCBOs are much better. Still dumb, but not terrible.

  90. 90.

    Xenos

    @Roger Moore:

    I think there’s really only one great beer nation: Belgium.

    Agreed. There are some good German beers, but, on the whole, they are much too German about it all.

  95. 95.

    Cassidy

    @Roger Moore: Mass produced is mass produced no matter what country your in. Unless you’re sitting at the abbey in Belgium and they’re flowing your beer out of a cask, odds are you’re drinking something that’s mass produced or no more small batch than any other microbrewery.

  96. 96.

    Cassidy

    @ruemara: They can take back Wolverine, though. One character singlehandedly dicked up the X-Men continuity for life and no amount of retooling gets it back. It’s time for Marvel to do a Nu52.

  97. 97.

    ruemara

    @Redshirt: I had it too, but it was destroyed in the Great Demon Purging of ’84. Where I had to destroy my precious comic collection due to my mom snoopedwas led by GAWD to it’s hiding place, thanks to the blessing stealing demon aura given off by Chris Claremont’s X-Men.

    @Cassidy: Shut Your Slut Bucket. Second to Ororo, Wolverine is my guy.

  98. 98.

    Redshirt

    @ruemara: LOL. My stupid cat peed on ALL my comics – he used the box as his litter box. 30 years later and you can still smell it.

    It boggles my mind that some parents would be against their kids reading comics. HINT, parents – the kids are reading! Any reading is good reading.

  99. 99.

    Mike G

    @Cassidy:

    One thing I don’t see mentioned much in regard to beer is that freshness makes a big difference. I’ve drank beer just hours off the bottling line at Indian Wells Brewery in the eastern Sierra and it was some of the best I’ve ever had. Mass produced beer is more likely to be older due to huge production runs and mass distribution systems so this might explain some fo the quality deterioration.

  100. 100.

    Cassidy

    @ruemara: Wolverine will never be as cool as Sabretooth. Seriously, though, that’s why I stopped reading the comic. I love me some X-Men, but the book might as well have been called “Wolverine’s continual emo hunt for his past and [sometimes] the X-Men”.

  101. 101.

    ruemara

    @Redshirt: Only if it’s these comics, or the bible, or bible stories. I grew up fundy from the branch that read “Pigs in the Parlor”. Every sunday for 8 hours, with demon chasing evenings. The trouble I got into for watching “Close Encounters”…

    @Cassidy: I’d duel you, but only if you like Rob Liefield’s artwork. And, yah, kinda emo dude.

  102. 102.

    Goblue72

    @Roger Moore: Agreed. U.S. craft beer is now 6.5% domestic market share by volume, 10% by dollar value share.

    There’s so much crazy good American craft beer available. Theres no reason to be drinking Bud OR Molson at this point.

    And generally it’s not THAT much more expensive, unless your preferred beer choice is a 30 pack suitcase of Coors Light. I picked up a 12 pack of Deschutes Twilight Summer Ale for a hair over a buck a beer.

    Life’s too short to drink bad beer.

  103. 103.

    Cassidy

    @Mike G: Absolutely. Going to Belgium and doing a tour of the abbeys and breweries is on my bucket list, but that’s because I love Belgian style beers. Personally, I think that North American microbrew is just as good as anywhere else in the world, it just depends on what you like.

  104. 104.

    AHH onna Droid

    Not confidential at all to Zapruder-read your rant about Jeantel’s language and want to second upfist times 1000.

    It took me the better part of 3 years to become fluent in BEV working in a community of color 6x a week despite studying it in school (!). I still speak it inelegantly due to interferance from the Standard American English (I have an accent but did not grow up speaking a regional dialect of any sort) I was raised with and speak at home.

    Ignorant people need to stuff it.

  105. 105.

    Cassidy

    @Goblue72: Depends on what you’re doing. In my fridge I keep good microbrew. If I’m going to the beach/ lake/ BBQ/ fishing all day, I’m taking a couple cases of Coors Light just so I can drink all day without getting inebriated.

  109. 109.

    Trollhattan

    I am grateful for Joni Anderson, Margo Timmins, the McGarrigle sisters, Neil Young and Holly Cole. I lurves me some Unibroue and really appreciate all the subsidized Canadian lumber that went into my home addition. When living in Seattle I definitely enjoyed my escapes to Victoria, Vancouver (bestest city in western North America) and Vancouver Island.

    Yay fifty-first state!

    Rush can FOAD; I’d sooner listen to a BTO tribute band.

  110. 110.

    Comrade Mary

    @Svensker: You missed the pre-80s era for Ontario LCBOs, where you had to fill out little forms with golf pencils before you could get your cherry brandy[1] brought out from the mysterious back room. There were absolutely no bottles out on display. People still argue back and forth about dumping the LCBO stores and going private.

    Anyway, unless there’s something weird going on in the Cabbagetown TBSs, you will find a lot of 2-4s out on the floor of a TBS, along with some smaller containers, even though the bulk does have to be brought out from the back. But it’s not Soviet like the LCBO used to be.[2]

    [1] I was a kid, OK? I moved straight from 50 to Singapore Slings.

    [2] Bonus 80s Toronto Soviet reference. No, he’s not singing “Soviet brewery”.

  111. 111.

    dewzke

    The nation of Wisconsin is no slouch for providing great craft beer to its citizens.

  112. 112.

    Cassidy

    @ruemara: Oh of small feet and bazillions of pouches. It just seemed like the throwaway storyline when they couldn’t come up with anything else in the “extreme” 90’s. The storyline where he found Jubilee was awesome, so I never had a problem with Wolverine getting spotlight time. it was just the “Who am I? Is my wife dead? did I really have a wife? Where did I come from? ” and so on and so forth. Admittedly, I feel the same way about Scott Summers, Jean Gray/ Pheonix , and Wolverine love triangle, and the recent addition of Emma Frost.

  113. 113.

    Suffern ACE

    What’s the national cocktail I’m supposed to lift for a toast? A seven and seven? Is that the Canada Libre?

  115. 115.

    Trollhattan

    @Goblue72:

    Yup. Amazingly, my local Costco now has a HUGE craft brew selections, not just cases but dozens of big bottle choices, many of them from local brewers.Yay for freedom from crap. (Interestingly, a couple months ago there were signs in the beer section noting “Budwiser, Bud Lite….[bunch of InBev brands] are not available because we are unable to secure pricing from the maker that assures our customers receive the best prices available.” I’ll bet that caused some butthurt.)

  116. 116.

    Yatsuno

    @Ramalama:

    Weird but the quality of the dairy here in Quebecistan is outstanding, but the ice cream situation SUCKS.

    Ice cream is unfortunately not a French art. Gelato is squarely Italian and ice milks are the province of Britain. The French prefer sorbets, which tend to have no dairy in them.

  117. 117.

    ? Martin

    Clinton 66, Rubio 28 in ’16 matchup among Latino voters, says Latino Decisions poll….Biden 60, Rubio 28.

    Rubio is polling 1 point higher than Romney earned in 2012. And everyone will read their own message. Dems will argue this proves the GOP needs to back popular policies. The GOP will argue that even if a Latino can’t win their vote, then their vote is ungettable and double down on the white men. And I wonder how much more damage to the women’s vote the GOP can do. Ohio is now down. Tx is working hard to expand that 55/44 gap:

    The goal is to get government money out of the abortion process, and if contraceptive services have to suffer a bit of collateral damage in the process, so be it. When The Texas Tribune asked state Rep. Wayne Christian (R-Nacogdoches), a supporter of the family planning cuts, if this was a war on birth control, he said “yes.”

    “Well of course this is a war on birth control and abortions and everything — that’s what family planning is supposed to be about,” Christian said.

    Family planning clinics are routinely referred to by many Texas Republican legislators as “abortion clinics” even though none of the 71 family planning clinics in the state that receive government funding provides abortions. Texas and federal law prohibits that, but most women’s health clinics will refer women or teens who want an abortion to a provider.

  122. 122.

    different-church-lady

    America thanks you for being such a stylish hat.*

    Top Ten Canadian Nicknames For Americans*

    10. Skinny Bacon Lovers
    9. Gretskynappers
    8. Continent Hogs
    7. Un-Mounties
    6. Surfboard-Riding Barbarians
    5. Individually Wrapped Cheese Slice Junkies
    4. Upper Mexicans
    3. Pizza-Gorged Convertible Jockeys
    2. Star-Spangled Sissy Boys
    1. Puckstops

    (*Stolen from someone, somewhere.)

  126. 126.

    SmallAxe

    @polyorchnid octopunch:

    Where do you get that? Publicly traded TRP ticker symbol, HQ is in Calgary, Chairman and President both Canadians. I know they have an office in Houston and DC but it’s a Canadian company as far as I know.

  127. 127.

    Goblue72

    @Southern Beale: mikkelker make some tasty brews. But even those guys would admit they were inspired by the “break the rule book” approach of the American craft brew industry.

    For some odd reason, people don’t want to admit that thanks to pioneers like Fritz Maytag (Anchor Steam), Bert Grant (Grant’s Brewpub in Yakima), Jack McAuliffe (New Albion Brewery), & others, the U.S. has vaulted itself to the top ranks of great beer making nations, alongside Germany, Denmark, Belgium, & the UK.

  129. 129.

    Ramalama

    @Suffern ACE: You know, I’ve been spoiled by Boston and the many (though dwindling) offerings of the most incredible ice cream makers ever. JP Licks and Christina’s in particular are stand outs over every other ice cream.

    You’re right about the yogurt. The cheese is incredible – unless you’re gunning for cheddar – then you should just do what I do and carry it over from Vermont. It’s probably just the American in me that wants to take the dairy one step further. Happy sucky ice cream, Canada Day.

  130. 130.

    Goblue72

    @Cassidy: while many micros sport eye popping ABVs (does the world need another Imperial Ale? Apparently so.), a number of craft brewers are putting out great low alcohol session beers.

    Deschutes River Ale is a fantastic, quenchable, session beer. Light, refreshing, hint of hops, AND an ABV of 4%. Coors Light ABV is 4.2%

    It’s a misnomer that microbrew means boozy.

  131. 131.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @? Martin:

    The GOP will argue that even if a Latino can’t win their vote, then their vote is ungettable and double down on the white men.

    Good.

    Keep fucking that chicken, fascist, racist scum.

  133. 133.

    gbear

    I’ll thank Canada for the band Sloan. Not every album is a classic, but it’s cool that they bucked the grunge trend when they started off and managed to keep the band together for over 20 years with all of the same original members.

    When it’s Austrailia day, I’ll thank them for the band You Am I.

  136. 136.

    Goblue72

    @Ramalama: I miss Boston’s ice cream shop on every street corner.

    And Vermont does more than cheddah. The Vermont Cheese Trail is great way to sample the states award winning artisanal cheese.

  141. 141.

    Redshirt

    @Davis X. Machina: I have seen the annual migration – Quebec trucks hauling trailers, headed for their ancestral Summer breeding ground of Old Orchard Beach.

    I went to school in OOB in the 4th grade and had to take French. Also, my best friend that year was a guy named Francois.

  142. 142.

    Steve M.

    Shout-out for Sarah Polley’s lovely documentary about her family, Stories We Tell. Also for Slings and Arrows, which is goofily brilliant.

  143. 143.

    Davis X. Machina

    @Redshirt: Les francophones have their own CB channel down to OOB… hear stuff you don’t get to in school, even in AP French…

  145. 145.

    Gravenstone

    @ruemara: C’mon now, the first 12 issues of AF were pretty good. The balance of Byrne’s tenure had moments. What Marvel chose to do to the title post-Byrne was an absolute crime.

  146. 146.

    Gravenstone

    @Cassidy: Marvel put out a compliation of Wolverine’s history through the various titles as part of Free Comic Book Day a couple years back. I’d largely walked away from comics back in the late 80’s so I had no clue the depths to which the brand had sunk over the years as every two bit writer in the Marvel stables wanted to put their particular spin on his history.

  147. 147.

    Lurking Canadian

    @Suffern ACE: To the extent that there is a “Canadian cocktail” it is a thing called a “Bloody Caesar” (usually just “Caesar”), which is just like a bloody Mary, except that instead of tomato juice, it’s made from something called “Clamato juice”, which (at least as I understand it), though it looks like tomato juice, has something to do with actual clams.

    I don’t know. It sounds, and has always sounded, revolting to me, but people around here love that shit.

  148. 148.

    Redshirt

    I think Wolverine is great. That said, is he really Canadian, or does he just not know where he comes from, so chose Canada, because that’s that oldest place he remembers?

    Also, the greatest Canadian comic character is clearly the Wendigo.

  149. 149.

    Cassidy

    @Gravenstone: They had to go back and retcon a lot of things to try and make it coherent. It just got ridiculous. Sucks. Wolverine was a pretty cool character when he first came on the scene, but they just saturated the storylines with it.

  153. 153.

    No One of Consequence

    @Yatsuno: **BUZZER**
    Wrong.

    (Used to work in an Ice Cream factory.)

    Here is how it breaks down: largely by butter fat content.
    You have your Haagen Daas (sp?) clocking in at 14 – 16%
    Normal Ice Cream (in the States should be around 8%)
    Ice Milk (frozen soft serve Dairy Queen stuff) at about 4%
    Sherbet or Sorbet (about 2%, and about twice the sugar or more).

    For those in the know: Ice Milk mix is pretty tasty as a liquid. Like vanilla milk.

    – NOoC

  155. 155.

    No One of Consequence

    @Origuy: A regional ice cream manufacturer in the midwest. This was 20 years ago. However, I worked in the laboratory, doing batch tests and analysis for contamination and consistency of product and quality. My bad on Sorbet. Je parles tros petit peux Francais, but I thought that sorbet was merely the French equivalent of Sherbet. My bad. Shouldad, wouldad, couldad googled…

    Thanks,

    – NOoC

  156. 156.

    Mnemosyne

    @No One of Consequence:

    Sorbet and sorbetto (Italian) are the same thing and are milk free, but sherbet (or sherbert) is a different product that has milk in it.

    — Lactose-intolerant label reader

  160. 160.

    e.a.f.

    Thank you for the happy birthday Canada wish. Yes Canada is awsome and has awsome people. We just have a dork for a prime minister and his cabinet ministers aren’t the brightest lights in the country.

    We have an AWSOME mayor in Calgary!

    Canada’s a great place to live. We have gun control! We have a health care system which is government funded. Americans have their guns, we have medical cards. its the reallllly big differance.

    Hope the Americans have a great 4 July

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