Worthwhile Canadian Initiative

And now: the stupidest thing you'll read today. Unless you spend your afternoon on YouTube comment pages.

TV NEWS Things like this from sites that cover movies - well, it just burns. It burns, I tell you.

Sigh. Yes indeed, that's how you do a TV version of the movie, all right. Two cops at West Acres Mall or perhaps checking out a drunk at the Red River Lanes up by Northport dere, ya.

"FARGO" WAS NOT ABOUT FARGO. Doesn't help that the Fargo theater has a statue of Marge, carved from a tree trunk, but still.

That is not the stupidest thing you'll read all day. Let's continue.

BEGUN, THE PIZZA WARS HAVE Even the most mundane business story can tell you something that comes as an utter surprise. This USA Today piece on Domino's forthcoming pan pizza, for example. Oh, sure, we knew they'd tried it before. We knew Pizza Hut currently has that line of pies sewed up tight. We knew that Domino's has been rejuvenated since they changed their recipe from "inedible" to "you'd order it again without wincing." (The last time I ordered from Domino's, I requested extra sauce, and got a pizza from which all sauce had been expertly extracted, which will put me off the brand until kids are over and clamor for it again.) But then you read the comments:

It is?

This led to a google search for "Canadian Pizza Chains," which someone seems to sum up this day completely. So, dear, what did you do today? I googled Canadian Pizza Chains. I found a few that had fries on the menu. Poutine, too. If you're eating pizza and poutine you really don't care, do you? No. But then I landed here, and discovered a food I'd never heard of: the Donair.

It's a gyro, but up there they call it a donair. You learn something every day. Useless, but something.

Here's another thing I learned today: China, which has an kleptomaniacal attitude towards intellectual property, makes a fake Sharpie.

Ermagerd, Skerples! Note how the highlight cleaves the l so it looks like a dotted i, just like a Sharpie. Brilliant!

1900 Here's another cartoon from the 1900 Minneapolis Tribune Cartoon Book. If I understand this right, the cartoonist is applauding the military's removal of the Cuban Assembly, which means it gets $3,000,000 from the American government.

And that is the stupidest thing you'll read today.

PSYCHOLOGY The reason some people don't like the way some people drive their bikes? It has nothing to do with reason.

Those were your words and images, pal. He goes on to note that people blame all cyclists because of a few cyclists, and have an illogical objection to their presence and behavor because we're consulting our emotions, not our cold clear reason. This must be true because behaviorial economists have a name for it!

You can sum up the entire debate in this South African Fiat Ad. It's completely unrealistic, but it strikes a chord. There's so much car-touching disrespect it's hard to bear: