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Barack Obama lays down the smack in South Carolina's presidential primary. Obama won by an enormous 28-point margin, prompting Bill Clinton to afterwards comment that this was no big deal because Jesse Jackson, who is a black man, like Barack Obama, won South Carolina when he ran for President, and did he mention that Barack Obama is black just like Jesse Jackson? (Also black: Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan, and that R&B star that had sex with those underaged girls.)

Hello readers! If you were lucky enough to win tickets to the screening of There Will Be Blood last night you will have already made your mind up about the film (well, we hope), but we’re going to subject you to our opinion of it anyway.

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Torontoist has a shameful confession to make. We have been known to, on rare occasion, read a book primarily because the movie based upon that book features someone kind of adorable. Shallow as this impetus is, it has led to some wonderful reading (how else would we have discovered the wonders of Edith Wharton, if not for our high school crush on Daniel Day-Lewis?), including John Berendt's excellent .

Last fall, after countless tirades and campaigning against giant corporations like Nike, Vancouver-based anti-preneur Adbuster went into the shoe-making business, launching the unswooshing, vegan-compliant Blackspot Sneaker. It comes complete with a litany of do-gooder, anti-corporate details like fair labour sourcing, hemp and biodegradable materials, plus customer shareholders (1 pair = 1 vote), etc. etc. And that, Torontoist thought, was that.