Mr. DeMint goes to Honduras
Meet Jim DeMint. Mr. DeMint is the junior senator from South Carolina, elected for the first time back in 2004 in one of the less-noticed rightward shifts in the country in the wake of George W....
London Film Festival: “His & Hers” – of love and Irish proverbs
Mark Farnsworth is currently reviewing selected films from the London Film Festival. "A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.” Ken Wardrop’s first...
“Survivor Samoa” episode III: from women to girls
This week, “Survivor” opened with Jaison revealing his anger at Ben for his comments toward Yasmine in the previous episode. It was as though a fog had finally been lifted and members of Foa Foa...
London Film Festival: “Passenger Side” is full of wit
Mark Farnsworth is currently reviewing selected films from the London Film Festival. Ever wished you’d never picked up the phone? Just let it ring off and go back to bed none the wiser and let the...
Netanyahu: busy deflecting the Goldstone Report with Iran
This Middle Eastern country likes nothing more than to have its back against the wall. Accustomed to having the world against it, the country has dealt with repeated and, at times, legitimate fear of...
The film industry’s defense of Polanski isn’t going so well
The current media blow-up over the Roman Polanski case has exposed our culture's disturbing whitewashing of the personal characters of creative people, as well as served up an entirely bizarre idea...
Fiona Pilkington inquest: how ableism can lead to suicide
Who would be mean to someone with a disability? We function under the belief that we take special care of those that are differently-abled, because of their vulnerability, yet the truth is quite...
What should Obama do about the Honduran coup?
In the last two weeks, the political situation in Honduras has begun spiraling out of control. Coup leaders, led by Roberto Micheletti, have significantly raised the stakes since the return of exiled...
Did money kill the public option?
“Democrats kill the public option.” Well, the public option lives beyond the Senate Finance Committee. But that headline should still give chills to anyone who thought that a Democratic...
Some friendly legal advice for Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski’s recent arrest at the Zurich Film Festival in Switzerland has ignited a firestorm of reactions. No one denies that he drugged and raped a 13-year-old girl in 1977, or that he has...