I have been curious about John from Cincinnati, but personally I hope it fails miserably, as I have read its cancellation is pretty much the only chance of anything happening on the Deadwood front. God I love that show.

An amazing story indeed, but it should be noted that contrary to what Michael Moore may have you believe the Canadian medical system is far from perfect, and this case is a perfect example.

Due to there being no beds available at Calgary hospitals, the expectant mother had to be airlifted to a Montana hospital, albeit on the government's dime, to give birth.

Every time I get sick I am thankful I won't have to take out a second mortgage to get better, but we are not without our own problems.

While the Chuck Norris facts gag was indeed quite funny for about 5 minutes, comparing this ad in any way to Colbert or Stewart is wwwwaaaayyyy off base. While they use the truth as a tool for humor, all Huckabee is doing is following one ridiculous Chuck Norris fact with an almost as ridiculous fact of his own.

The return of American Gladiators brought to mind the late great Bill Hicks, whose comedy from the early 90's is still so culturally relevant today. Here is a quote from his bit on television being used as a tool to keep people stupid with American Gladiators as the prime example.

"So there, we have figured out, go back to bed America, your government has figured out how it all transpired. Go back to bed America, your government is in control again. Here, here's American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up! Go back to bed America, here's American Gladiators. Here's 56 channels of it. Watch these pituitary retards bang their f****** skulls together and congratulate you on living in the land of freedom. Here you go America - you are free, to do as we tell you. You are free, to do as we tell you."

If anyone out there has not heard Hicks, drop what you are doing and check him out right now.

There is really a guy named Coco Crisp? Insert super obvious cereal joke here.

The skateboarding culture of today is so far removed from its subversive/punk rock roots, there is no point in even discussing it. Most of todays skaters seem to be one keg stand away from being the fratboy jocks who used to chase me and my "skater fag" friends arund 20+ years ago. Either that or they would have been playing in a hair metal band. Have you seen that show on eMpTyV about the whiny rich kid skater? Yeah, me neither. But apparently it's like Tony Hawk heads to The Hills.

It used to bother me a little that this culture which seemed to be so much about integrity had become everything it used to be against, but I am over it now. Or maybe I am wrong in being nostalgic about the good old days. Maybe all my skate punk heroes from yester-year just seemed to have integrity because there was no one handing them bags of cash.

Sorry, not funny

Actually, the fact that you couldn't detect the sarcasm in Steambadgers post, shows that it is in fact you who is the dipshit. "a conspiracy so vast, so powerful, that it's members knew almost fifty years ago that a newborn black child would one day become presidnt, and that his Kenyan birth must be concealed". I know sarcasm is sometimes hard to see on web forums, but come on.

Actually Techservlib, in Canada you get 52 weeks of leave per couple, of which the father can claim up to 35 weeks. I just came back to work after having 4 weeks at home with my new baby, and am so grateful I was able to.