Over the top!

After my “we are the champions” riff yesterday, San Francisco Gate columnist Mark Morford reminds us that society will always need a new group to hate and offers up a few tongue-in-cheek suggestions.

I think Karl Lagerfeld‘s on someone’s list: he’s traded in his boy-toy for (literally) a younger model.

I’d suggest “National Post columnists obsessed with the ‘man-date'” — I’ll assume that “I Love You, Man” director John Hamburg is kidding here but you’d never know it from the Post’s annoying story.

But the award for Most Drastic goes, as always, to FOX News: they’re not happy about the US government having to buy up banks but they’re typically over-the-top about it:

A former editor of the late, lamented fab magazine, Scott has been writing for Xtra since 2007 on a variety of topics in news pieces, interviews, blogs, reviews and humour pieces. He lives on the Danforth with his boyfriend of 12 years, a manic Jack Russell Terrier, a well-stocked mini-bar and a shelf of toy Daleks.

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