All across the land, sad and confused preteens are lamenting the news that Canadian Idol, our nation’s source for mediocre musical talent, has been cancelled. Truly, our national culture will miss the hastily produced and completely unoriginal ‘albums’ created by the yearly winner/the large corporation that backed them. But amidst all this gloom, there is a silver lining. [...]
Canada Everyone is trying to figure out a why a gondola tower collapsed at Whistler. World Most world conflict was caused by ideological differences in 2008. Good thing this is a non-partisan blog. Nude models go on strike in Paris over a new anti-tipping law- naked. And brother, it’s cold in Paris right now. Mediated Surprising exactly [...]
That’s the only explanation I can come up with for this: This video is awful/awesome/awful again by viture of a totally unique combination of a terrible concept (a dog in the Olympics? Lame), poor production values, and the surprisingly wooden performances of the Bush Family. Did the opening zoom-in on the White Houes, apparently [...]
For the second year in a row, Nunc Scio has won Best Non-Partisan Blog in the Canadian Blog Awards. To honour this achievement, here is Nunc Scio’s official anthem, which I may or may not have stolen from Top Gun: [audio:http://nuncscio.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/van-halen-top-gun-theme.mp3|autostart=no|bgcolor=0x000000] Aw, yeah. That’s the stuff. Nunc Scio also came in fourth in the “Best [...]
Canada Toronto’s foremost asshat and bike thief Igor Kenk was arrested for assault. Now you can enjoy a beer with your mediocre Hollywood fare at Ontario theatres. Twilight has to be better when you’re drunk, right? World The jerk cop who assaulted a cyclist in NYC was indicted yesterday. Twenty years later, the site of [...]
Heath and Deborah Campbell seem like normal people. Until you hear the bat shazbot insane names they’ve given to their children. There’s Adolf Hitler Campbell, 3; Joycelynn Aryan Nation Campbell, 2; and little Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell (a feminization of Heinrich Himmler), just eight months. What kind of monster, you might ask, would give their children [...]
By now, everyone has seen the footage of an irate Iraqi journalist whipping his shows at President Bush. But you may not have seen his surprisingly thoughtful comments immediately afterwards: Impressive. Of course, one wonders why Bush’s thoughts about ‘free societies’ was reflected exactly nowhere in his administration’s policies. Via TPM. UPDATE: A few commentators [...]