There's been a number of unfavourable comparisons of Stephen Harper and George W. Bush of late, both in politics, media and of course those silly attack ads. But what of a legitimate comparison, at least in terms of the campaign? Here is George Jr. on his father's failed 1992 presidential campaign: "First lesson, polls change. I take nothing for granted. Second, we've got a strategy for the timing of policy speeches and set the debate...You......

Nick Flanagan's joke club held its one year anniversary last night, and over a dozen acts tried to make funny over the course of the evening. Gilson Lubin killed, the self-styled Dumb Grampa amused us, and the halftime show, courtesy of TV Carnage, took us down a memory lane Alan thicke with bizarre footage like George Bush Sr. puking while his wife watches on uninterested. Also, some guy shaved his chest onstage. Why, we......

Given the relatively short existence of rap music, tracing its lineage appears fairly simple. The advances in the genre are well-documented: Kool Herc started turntablism, Kurtis Blow first brought rap to the mainstream, Prince Paul popularized skits, Afrika Bambaataa rocked the sample, and so forth and so on. Then there is Dr Dre's classic 1992 album The Chronic, which represents perhaps the most perplexing turn in hip hop history. The album essentially brought West Coast......