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 …
