Found dead on the military base in Balad, Iraq in July, 2005, a short time after she began serving there, the United States Army ruled 19 year old Pfc. Lavena Johnson’s death as a suicide resulting from a self-inflicted M-16 rifle shot wound, and sent her home in a box. …
Batting a head continually against anything causes the brain to waffle back and forth inside the skull. This can cause bruising, and repeated bruising can cause brain damage. I get it. What I’m not clear on is why we are having congressional hearings about the situation. We struggle with making …
I love, love, seeing Whoopi tongue twisting herself around this “it’s not rape, rape” scenario. Here she is trying to snag herself a part in the next film of the “world famous humanist” Roman Polanski. We have it correct. He drugged a 13 year old and plied her with champagne. …
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 …
A rare cross posting from Darfur: An Unforgivable Hell on Earth. There is clearly a debate as to whether all publicity is good publicity. We won’t get into that here, but I lean on the side of usually, with exceptions. “Silence is Not Golden”. As I’ve written about the situation …
Lavena Johnson. I haven’t written of her case in some time because, despite all the congressional hearings late last year on the issue of sexual assault in the military, her case has never been specifically addressed, and the case has yet to be reopened. A new president was elected, and …
