Keep Fun In Christmas: New Zealand Church Comes Under Fire For Controversial Billboard

Christmas is a funny time of year, and if you’re a regular reader of my blog, chances are you already know where I stand on most of the hoopla that seems to surround the holiday.  But no matter how many times I tell people to chill out, relax, and try not to take things too [...]

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Ad-ultery: Ashley Madison To Advertise With TTC

“Adultery: noun – voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and someone other than his or her lawful spouse.”
Thanks, dictionary.com, for that extremely whitewashed definition of what might just qualify as the most terrible thing you can do to somebody.

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VANOC vs. Freedom of Speech = VANOC Wins

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. It’s like I have a real staff or something.

Let me explain.

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Pirates of the HD: The Pirate Bay Still Sailing

So I’ve wanted to write about this for a while, but as some of you have pointed out, my research skills have been somewhat less than “mad” recently, owing to a distinct lack of passion on my part. On that note, let me be the first to apologize for my spotty update schedule of [...]

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Ten Things I Hate About Everything (Guest Blog!)

New State of Affairs is coming down the tubes for later today, my good friends and readers, but in the meantime Jeff Oh over at Keep Your Coins, I Want Change decided he’s had enough of my sporadic update schedule and has taken it upon himself to remedy the situation.  So without further ado, I [...]

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Pervert Hackers: New Computer Virus Downloads Child Porn To Unsuspecting Users

My friends, the internet is a pretty wild place. I should know; most of my waking hours are spent online, jacked in, cyber-surfing the Information Superhighway. Now how’s that for Every 90s Internet Cliche in one sentence?

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Post-Traumatic Stress Debacle: VA Calls PTSD “Fabrication”

For those of you looking for a standard Alex James laugh-a-minute post, you may want to move on, because I’ve got some serious things to say today.
When you write a blog with the frequency I do, you start to get a feel for the way things work online: what will garner viewers, what kind of [...]

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GigaBandits: ISPs to Cap Internet Use

It’s a time-honoured tradition in capitalist societies: as soon as the big companies catch on to what’s popular (which sometimes takes a few days, as in the case of yearly toy fads, or a few years, as is the case with social media), they up the prices. Cause and effect, I suppose, but also supply [...]

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Toronto Man Murdered, Case Remains Unsolved: But You Can Help

If you’re looking for something funny today, my friends, you’re not going to find it here, because I am once again furiously angry.
A close friend of mine alerted me to this story yesterday.

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Fahrenheit 416: Toronto School Board Advocates Banning Harper Lee?

*ALEX JAMES UPDATE: See additional comments at the end of this article addressing new developments*
Crisp autumn weather? Check. Tasty Irish Cream coffee? Check. Impending head cold due to barometric pressure change? Check. Healthy dose of righteous indignation courtesy of reading ten seconds of news? Double-fucking-check.

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