A few movies filmed in Montreal So many movies are shot in cities like New York, London, Berlin, and Los Angeles that you probably wouldn’t watch them simply because that’s where they were filmed. While the city of Montreal has had its share of films over the decades, they are not as ubiquitous when you…
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A Rotten Theocratic Oligarchy In a state of over 30 million people, there are actually a few million in Texass who are decent people. But with its Republican trifecta and Republican triplex, it’s not a state that’s run democratically (in both the small-d and Big-D sense of the word). In 2024, Texas is a bin…
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Nevermind Secession: Cut Texas Loose The U.S. doesn’t need Texass and would be better off without their corrupt, godawful theocratic government. Secession is to Texass what apple pie is to Real America, but sadly, they have no apparatus to secede. We need to kick them out. It’ll be a painful breakup for millions of people.…
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“Skilled, Likable, and Lovable” While the origin of American Christofascism is debated among historians, the ascent of smiling Christofascist Mike Johnson to Speaker of the United States House of Representatives on October 25 demonstrated the grip fundamentalists have on the nation today. A man who looks a bit like Stephen Colbert, Mike Johnson was described…
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Please Stay Alive, You Lying Sack of Shit Betting markets offer a chance to place a wager on U.S. presidential elections, but predicting the future is a messy business that I don’t want to get involved in. On January 5, Biden and Trump were running neck and neck on PredictIt. This betting market is probably…
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Finally, a conspiracy that was more than a theory What ails the “United” States today? Lots, and some of it was encapsulated by a particular news story this month. In an age of countless make-believe conspiracies pushed by that nation’s Reich-wingers, an actual American conspirator confessed to falsifying documents and paying actors to fabricate a…
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This goes beyond a clown and his circus CNN could be worse: they could present verifiably false information as fact each day in a manner consistent with what cost Fox “News” nearly $800M recently. But if the network proved one thing on May 10, it’s that CNN is a national disgrace too. That’s the day…
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The Self-Appointed Executioner Daniel Penny killed a disorderly man on the F train in NYC on May 1. (Police let him walk.) When an American enjoys choking another American as much as Penny seemingly enjoyed choking the life out of Jordan Neely, it makes you wonder who else this guy choked in the past. In…
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Another Week in America’s Gun Dystopia Every week in the 2020s is another hellish week in America’s gun dystopia, but a snapshot of April 13–18 is truly exemplary. One thing was relearned with certainty: a well-worn gun fetishist talking point (“An armed society is a polite society”) has been shown as idiotic once and for…
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Donald Trump Jr triggered AGAIN? Just about anything sets off this elite silver spooner who spends most of his life now trying to convince rubes of his family’s victimhood. Headlines in Reich-wing media echo chambers — if they were honest, which they rarely are — should read “Trump Jr Triggered by David Pakman”. Daddy’s little MAGAt…
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