Author: wilfred

Some wonderful election news. A progressive Democrat has ousted an entrenched  old school Democrat and that is reason to celebrate.  Newark, NJ has a new mayor and it is Cory Booker, who will succeed long-term mayor...

The beautiful new film Water by director Deepa Mehta is a powerful one, so powerful that mobs of fundamentalist Hindus mobbed her film sets and torched them. Four long years later she started filming again, this time with a...

Most of you won’t have heard of this most likely as the news doesn’t seem to be covering it. Today, a real hero Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon filibustered the Senate today trying to get an up or down vote on his...

Is it just me or is anyone else out there tired of an Administration that is long on torturing, incarcerating or extraordinarily renditing someone (is that even a word?) and yet these same idiots couldn’t prevent the...

What ever one feels about the war in Iraq there is a statistic that saddens the soul and that is the one of the soldier who chooses to end his/her life before their time. It’s a disgrace because all of those who have their...