What were they thinking? or Insanity at the IOC!

Just last week I wrote on a comment line congratulations to Rio de Janeiro for being selected for the 2016 Olympics. Today I had a chance to read the October 5, 2009 New Yorker Magazine, which contains an article in Reporter At Large entitled “Gangland,” Who controls the streets of Rio de Janeiro? [...]

The Afghanis Militia fight to free their country

Report from the New York Times, October 4, 2009,
“KABUL, Afghanistan — Insurgents besieged two American outposts in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, American and Afghan officials said, killing eight Americans and two Afghan policemen in a bold daylight strike that was the deadliest for American soldiers in more than a year.
“The militants put on a very [...]

I have seen the Antichrist and it is woman

Lars von Trier has been known since his breakthrough film Breaking the Waves for putting not only his protagonists, but also his audience, through a series of torturous steps until reaching a climax surpassing all the pain that had come before it. Thus we are treated to the hanging death of the blind Selma in [...]