As October takes her first breaths, I dismiss the steady source of corporate income, the pink ribbon. In it’s place, another ribbon, this one purple, and not a ribbon that Estee Lauder would be interested obtaining legal counsel over. The purple ribbon stands for domestic violence awareness, and October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
Domestic Violence …
Does a ga zillion years make a difference?
From the Independent:
“But in March 1977, Polanski, then aged 44, made the fateful mistake that hangs on him to this day. He had been commissioned by Vogue Hommes to take a series of photographs of adolescent girls: he wanted to show them, he says in Roman, as “sexy, …
I was at Panera’s waiting for a colleague, taking advantage of the black bean soup and free wireless, when I came upon this story about a Blogger jailed in Anna Nicole Smith defamation suit. I’m not going to discuss this case, I don’t care about it except as an example of why vengeance, stupidity, …
While we’re on justice let’s look at the case of Troy Davis, digressing slightly for a moment.
Nisha recently wrote about Iran’s execution of Delara Darabi, wondering why there wasn’t more coverage of the case by mainstream media. Darabi, a juvenile when the crime was perpetrated, having originally confessed to the crime, later recanted, saying she …
