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'S primitive episodes made it seem as though the show was headed in much the same direction, with campy humor abruptly giving way to too-heartfelt grim stuff, all of it jumbling together into a pile of nonsense that amounted to nothing.

But what we failed to make real early on was that unlike the earthly environs of a high school or a medical commission, a big spooky haunted house is actually the perfect place for this scattershot expression system. Who cares if specters and other assorted demonry disappear into dark recesses as pronto as they're glimpsed? There are no hard-set rules in a mystery manor, it can be as lifeless and silly as it wants to be. Now, that's not to say that some narrative consistency isn't required for a virtuous television show, but as it would happen, as the show progressed it became clear that the season was the singular joke of a battle for ownership of a demon baby. As people died in the edifice, more ghostly cast members were added to the party, and by the season's end this far-out and slap-happy and, yes, sometimes genuinely scary melange managed to deliver on the fulfilling goods. [Spoiler alert] The Harmons are dead! Conniving Constance got the juvenile she wanted, but, oops, he turned out to be evil. Many of the ghosts are still sad and stuck, but a few others, namely dual-elderly maid Moira, got some little bit of contentment. And it was all fun and gonzo, even if not all the plot threads in point of fact tied up in any sense-making way.

Source: The Atlantic Wire

by Ellen Roseman

Air Canada is not known for using rapid Guy, but it is one of the strangest complaints I have seen (below). A traveler flying from Toronto to Heathrow saw a rat in management costs of doing business in a crack in the ceiling. Not satisfied with an apology from the lip of the airline, it is captivating his house for WestJet.

Other rodents have been on? They are a commonplace of restaurant kitchens in Toronto, as the megalopolis of mock tests have shown leadership.

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by Bob Cesca

I'm mildly shamefaced to own that I was perusing a competing blog the other day and was thus shocked to cognizance on the front send for a memorable headline and extra-large photo admonition that if you don't buy healthiness assurance under the new law, armed IRS agents in full uproar cog will storm your neighborhood and take you by power.

That's what we typically refer to in journalism as "have a screw loose."

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