Well, The New Republic is about to become even less relevant (as if that was even possible) thanks to its new owner: CanWest Global Communications Corporation. Can-fucking-West. If you didn’t know already, the Asper family, which controls CanWest, are fucking bat-shit crazy conservative Zionists. And, they like to use their media holdings to present their insane perception of the world as “reality.” Just watch Global National on the day something happens in Israel if you are not convinced.

Obviously, it is in the Aspers’ personal interests to prop up a dying Zionist rag, especially the one based out of Washington, D.C. But, this exercise in throwing shovels of cash into a bottomless well, an arrangement strikingly resemblant to the one between the Moonies and The Washington Times/UPI, is definitely not in the interest of the parties who actually own CanWest, which are not the Aspers¹. And, guess what? If you’re Canadian, every time you watch Family Guy (which is syndicated on GlobalTV), The New Republic is going to get a penny.

1. The Asper family has a majority of votes in CanWest Global despite having a minority stake in the company thanks to the company’s multi-class share system. Most of the shares owned by the Aspers belong to the class that grants multiple votes to each share while shares issued to non-Aspers have one vote each or none at all. To be fair, it’s not just CanWest that has this multi-class system. Rogers, Shaw, CHUM (before it was acquired by CTVglobemedia), and The New York Times Co. have (or, in case of CHUM, had) multi-class system, granting founding families with minority interests in the companies the majority of votes. It should however be noted that the families that control Rogers, Shaw, and NYT are not insane.

Peaches (a.k.a. Merrill Nisker) is 38.

What I am trying to say: Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton look way older than they are actually; Peaches looks much younger. Peaches wins?

Features include:

• NEW – Google Maps instead of the slow, Flash-based Yahoo! Maps
• NEW – Faster housing retrieval, hopefully.
• Uses the current (almost; if someone made the same query less than four hours before, you will get the cached version) listing, not a cached version from a long, long time ago.
• Less self-promotion-laden than the version by that another guy, not that there’s anything wrong with self-promotion.

This guy was in some math class (can’t remember which one), this guy was in my CS 246 lecture section, and this guy was in that horrible combinatorics class. And, I am pretty sure I saw him on Columbia St. a few days ago; I don’t think he was in any of my classes though.

O-em-gee, indeed.

It seems like a thousand years ago that I went to Ottawa to assist Deborah Grey, Reform’s first and then only MP.

No sooner had Deborah and I arrived in Ottawa than I became aware of three political lies circulating on Parliament Hill. The first was that Deborah was homosexual. The second was that I was homosexual. And the third was that we were sleeping together!

Wait, it gets even better:

Anyone who gets involved in the process will quickly come to realize that lying and politics go together like scandalous dresses and Oscar night.

Scandalous dresses? Oscar night? I mean, what the fuck? Did Harper just out himself?

And, uhh, can somebody elaborate on these rumours?

1. famous,
2. a personal acquintance,
3. a musician, or
4. pretty.

Sufjan qualifies for criteria 1 (although barely), 3, and 4; so naturally, there has to be people out there wondering if he’s gay or not.

This got me wondering: why do people care if Sufjan Stevens is gay, why would they wonder if he is gay in the first place, and why do they come here?

The third one is obvious:

1. This blog is third one down from the top for “sufjan stevens gay” on Google.
2. The first two are completely spurrious hits.
3. NNDB, the most comprehensive “gay or not” database, does not have an entry for Sufjan Stevens.

I’ll try to tackle the first question, why do people care if Sufjan Stevens is gay, in the next entry.