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(Dolemite Theatrical Trailer – 1975… NSFW) Others will write about how Rudy Ray Moore in many ways laid the groundwork for the African American comedy, music, and rap explosion of the late 70s and early 80s. How the “party record” circuit in many ways showed for the first time there was a voracious market of […]

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This website makes me feel much better about the current market woes hammering my pitiful RRSP. (Via the bird-shirted one himself) Continuing in a similar vein, on a scale from one to awesome, how much fun is it to read really nutty right wing US political websites these days? (Let alone the mere thought that […]

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So 38 days later a record low number of Canadians have gathered to speak as one, in one voice, unified in a collective political belief. I have no idea what that belief is… perhaps that we don’t really like any of these guys so we’re pretty much okay with things the way they were… more […]

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Remember fellow Canucks – no matter your party of preference – simply by going to your local polls today you can accomplish many exciting goals: Show Sean Combs that we don’t actually need the threat of physical violence to excercise our democratic rights. Support the concept of policy and platform being important issues to discuss […]

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Noted media smart-guy and NYU journalisim professor Jay Rosen’s gotten a fair amount of play in the US political blogs lately by asking some really inventive questions about what the responsibilities of journalistic “fairness” are given the recent scenario where the GOP has tried to entirely discredit entire sectors of the media. In a follow-up […]

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A number of my officemates were unaware of the perennial classic piece of Americanna, “You and I and George”. Not only was this oversight shocking, but it occurred to me that, like many great works, it is even truer in this difficult American political climate than when it was first penned. Rolf was truly ahead […]

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While it was quite refreshing to see culture come up in the leaders debate there’s still an unsettling trend of framing the various issues in the context of “is cultural product important”? These are usually identifiable by such thrilling arguments such as: I don’t think taxpayer money should have been spent on (Artistic Thing Goes […]

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Overcompensating is one of those sites I could pretty much link daily. Jeffrey Rowland is not only one of my favourite webcartoonists – he is also too mean to die. However today’s instalment pretty much summarizes the entirety of the US political arena. It is like a fractal – every single element of it is […]

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