Month: February 2006

Lars von Trier is back again in his American trilogy, this time with Manderlay. For those who aren’t familiar with the Danish director of “Breaking the Waves” and “Dancer in the Dark”, he is quite...

This diary is a slightly extended reply I posted in response to threads on the subject of the Mohammed cartoons. Rather than explore again the motives in publication and the reported reaction in the Muslim Ummah against them, I...

Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Colin Powell, continues to be one of the Bush administration’s worst nightmares. In a February 3rd interview aired on PBS, and summarized at Raw Story, Wilkerson went further...

“John Boehner, the new Majority Leader talked with MTP and responded to a question about corruption in Iraq. ‘It may not benefit our generation, but for our kids and theirs, this maybe the greatest gift we give...

Remember these documents that were buried in the desert in New Mexico?   They supposedly pertained to Shell Oil and a pipeline to Mexico.   I have just GOT to stop cleaning out my old files because I find all kinds of...