Sentimental, maybe, but I think it is.

Russell Smith in today’s Globe (& Mail).

 Why don’t creative young writers care if they get paid?

There now exists an entire generation of intelligent people who have grown up without any

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My heart can’t really take delving into this subject too deeply at the moment, but can I just say that when you go to sleep with your team up by a run in the seventh AND your wild card competition …

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That doesn’t mean this guy isn’t being extra alarmist in order to sell shit. Another thing to point out: his recommendation seems to be for people to start a bank run. Hard to …

This is the best picture of Tom Friedman I could find on the Internet. I’m too lazy to use Paint to crop it. Deal with it, plz.

We’re all gonna die.

A record-setting 36.4 billion tons of carbon dioxide were added to the atmosphere in 2010. That’s a 45 percent increase in the global annual release of carbon dioxide by humans since 1990, reports the European

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For basically the most depressing shit you’ll read all year (and if it ain’t, you are reading some truly depressing shit on a regular basis — maybe mix in some Dave Barry once in awhile, okay, just to keep the …

Canada has finally come around to the awesomeness of the American justice system and passed a, by all accounts, “sweeping” crime bill designed to “toughen punishments for a range of offenders, from drug dealers to sexual predators to what Justice …

There’s a counterintuitively chilling story over at Discovery News right now about how warming water temperatures have found king crabs “expanding their undersea kingdoms into parts of the Antarctic shelf and devouring whole ecosystems in the process.”

However, that’s not …

Somehow uglier than Brave New World:

JUST before 10 on a Saturday night in August, hundreds of U.N.C. freshmen line up outside the campus bookstore, waiting for a fleet of buses to take them to Target. At the front

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Krugman kinda sorta takes up my question from earlier this week (namely: “What exactly should have been done that wasn’t and when should it have been done in order to both get the economy out of the recession of the early …