Well, there is good news and there is bad news.
The good news is that the WOZA women were finally granted bail and left out of a horrible jail after they dared to hold a peaceful demonstration a couple weeks ago.
The rest of the news is bad news, alas, and what makes it worse is that […]

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One of the great genres of the late 60’s and early 70’s rock music scene was the Rock Opera, an album devoted to a story or a theme. Maybe the best known example was The Who with Tommy, but to me, Tommy was an over the top theatrical disaster, I watched an early version of […]

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Scrubs is one of the few television shows I watch with great devotion.  Another is Gossip Girl, but have you seen Blake Lively lately?  How could someone not be devoted to that show?  The best part is that, due to syndication on some of my local channels, I can catch Dr. Dorian and his pals […]

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Victor and Ashley are seen standing by the river kissing. Then we see Phyllis frustrated by not being able to reach Nick on his cell phone. Meanwhile Nick notices no messages at all on his cell phone and tells Sharon if anyone wants to get in touch with him they know how to reach him […]

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Often, things are not as they first appear, and that is true in this story of kidnapping and subterfuge. Baby Shark is the nickname for Poolshark-turned-PI Kristin Van Dijk, the heroine of this hard-boiled 1950s mystery. A tough, gun-toting lady, she has been compared to Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer, and the comparison is dead on.
In […]

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I can’t remember seeing any pandas in a zoo, although I’m sure I have.  One of the zoos I visit even has a panda in their logo, so there have to be some of them around there somewhere.  Nonetheless, they are a very cute animal, even if they can be ferocious at times out in […]

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I am a firm believer in ‘bucking’ the conventional standards, half the time if I am asked to review a trilogy of books I will start with the last one! Actually the reason is usually more prosaic, Someone sends me the third book, and because I like it, I work back in time to understand […]

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I used to be way into kung fu when I was a kid.  It was exotic, it was cool, who wouldn’t like it?  Of course, I never tried doing anything with it other than reading a couple of books about it.  My life is just as fulfilling now as it would have been with a […]

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I like sad movies.  I also like sad songs.  Maybe it’s the Ben Gibbard in me, but feeling sad always feels more authentic than being happy.  That’s why when you are on a youth group trip, young and unblemished, you watch Remember The Titans and feel moved by their successes and accomplishments.  Yet as you […]

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The advent of a Democratic administration offers a badly needed opportunity to get to the bottom of serious matters covered up by the Bush Administration. Clearly, the nation would benefit from finding out the hidden history of the past eight years. We could finally reach closure on the events of 2001. Culprits could be identified […]

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I think Gregory Peck is one of the best actors who has ever lived.  Seeing him in To Kill A Mockingbird is what made me first want to become a lawyer.  His role, alongside David Niven’s in The Guns Of Navaronne made me believe in a different kind of patriotism, in the price we do […]

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The Victorian government has made an apology to victims of asbestos exposure, and the move has been welcomed by a Gippsland support group that deals with sufferers of asbestos related diseases. Since the 1920s workers at power stations in the Latrobe Valley that were run by the State Electricity Commission (SEC) were exposed to asbestos.
According […]

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(London, UK) The UK Autism Foundation has released a statement in London stating the autism charity is delighted that the Patron of UKAF, Lee Scott MP has been short listed for the ePolitix Disability Champion Award 2008. Lee Scott MP has campaigned night and day for all people with autism and Asperger’s Syndrome, not only […]

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Blogging from Phoenix: Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin spent some time with FOX network host Greta Van Susteren and from this hard core liberal bloggers perspective. She pretty much dispelled the rumors and gossip being “leaked” to the media by former McCain campaign staffers.
While the networks still report as gospel truth every utterance of the crew responsible […]

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The article below, which asserts that conservatives are less creative than liberals, is just the usual Leftist bigotry, based on a very poor knowledge of the research literature. Creativity does not generalize much, meaning there is no such thing as an overall trait of creativity. If there were an overall trait […]

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