The picture below was taken at 6PM at the Bloor-Yonge subway stop fare-collection area. Those people? Aren’t moving. They’re in lines. Long, long, nonmoving lines.

Toronto Transit Commission: The Betterest Way
Token dispensers? Out of service. The monthly-pass dispenser? Sllooooowwwww. I can only imagine how helpful the surly helpful and friendly TTC fare-collectors were while dealing with [...]

Appendix Removed Via Mouth; First Such Surgery In U.S.

And then, scarcely two weeks later…

Appendix Removed Through Vagina: U.S. First

(Thanks to Dale for the tip.)

Some people might think that General Motors (Canada)’s appropriation of the name of a series of videos featuring drunk “university” girls, strenuously trying to mortify their parents, is going too far. I say they’re not going far enough.

Y’know, you’d think that unplugging the freezer holding the cryogenically-suspended head of Jerry Falwell in your care, for just sixty minutes during Earth Hour, wouldn’t do much harm.
But you’d be wrong.
Oops. Super-sorry.

Read this New Yorker story. See this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXvnp1GU388

Official Standard Operating Procedure website here.
As a relatively intelligent nonAmerican, of course I can separate the America represented by my insanely clever, funny, charitable, hard-working and beautiful-in-so-many-ways friends and colleagues (and the many millions like them) from the America represented by the greedy criminals who’ve damaged that country’s reputation [...]

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So, I was sitting in the gym sauna today, talking with a couple of guys about what they did for Earth Hour last night, and they were appalled that at the appointed hour Champ and I were oven-broiling steaks while watching a DVD (with sound through the stereo) and also had a pair of computers [...]

Right.

Addendum (for Tara):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw79u6VqcvM

Thank goodness for mainstream media like CBS, whose mandate appears not only to fill your head with “news” vetted by the political and commercial interests which control such things but also to fill your head with “news” you’d have to possess a single-digit I.Q. to not already know.
Because, good golly, after being frightened into believing [...]

Seann William Scott:

Important Reminder: The “Green on Thursday” series always reveals very much more about your host at This.That.No Other. than it does about any of the featured personalities.