Eric Holder, Attorney General, has decided to investigate CIA employees and their involvement in torture and prisoner abuse. Only a few weeks into his Presidency, Obama had indicated that his Administration would not investigate the CIA employees who had used techniques greenlighted by the Bush Justice Department. Slate calls the appointment of a special prosecutor a "half a torture investigation".
Ted Kennedy, senator from Massachusetts since 1962, died of a brain tumor this week. Apart from being one of the most vocal proponents of health care reform, he was also the youngest brother of John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy who were both assassinated in the 1960s. He ran for the Democratic Nomination for the Presidency once in 1980 and lost to incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter. His image of being a whole-hearted liberal was always somehow thwarted by the so-called Chappaquiddick incident, in which he crashed a car and left a woman, who had previously worked on his brother Robert's campaign, to die.
Apparantly, holding a birthday party for a major bank executive on the verge of a banking crisis does not exactly help your image during a campaign. That this affair is going to threaten the CDU in the German federal elections is highly doubtful.
A 13 year old Dutch girl set on sailing around the world on her own (for two years) and supported by her parents is currently fighting for that right. This is her homepage, currently only available in Dutch.
In other news, Feminists vs. Peta in Portland. Why?
OK, so I accept that every group has a right to lobby for their own ideas about policy. This is part of the political process. But somehow, when the catholic church campaigns against abortion with arguments that sound like the "we will become a minority in our own country"-nationalism we love and admire on the right-wing extremist side of the party spectrum, I fail to see why anyone should listen. Also, way to go on the "objective journalism", Presse.
Jonathan Lethem talks about Philip K. Dick.
The New York Magazine serenades Drew Barrymore (and "Whip It!"). "Drew Barrymore is sunshine. Drew Barrymore is cookies. Drew Barrymore is fluffy puppies and mild hallucinogenic drugs, tucked neatly into a gift basket made of daisies."
River Tam is fighting her way through io9's "Televion's Biggest Badass of All Time" Contest. She has already beaten Cameron from "Terminator". Is there a power in the 'verse that can stop this girl?
Trailer-Galore for some of the upcoming big Sci-fi movies from well-known directors (BSFMFWKD).
"Inception" by Christopher Nolan ("Memento", "The Dark Knight"). Features Leonardo DiCaprio, Marion Cotillard, Ken Watanabe, Cillian Murphy, Ellen Page and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
"Avatar" by James Cameron. Features Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Zoë Saldaña, Michelle Rodriguez and Giovanni Ribisi.
"District 9" (directed by Neill Blomkamp and produced by Peter Jackson), a South African movie read as a parable for the Apartheid regime, is already out in the US.
NY Times Review.
PopMatters Review.
Ted Kennedy, senator from Massachusetts since 1962, died of a brain tumor this week. Apart from being one of the most vocal proponents of health care reform, he was also the youngest brother of John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy who were both assassinated in the 1960s. He ran for the Democratic Nomination for the Presidency once in 1980 and lost to incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter. His image of being a whole-hearted liberal was always somehow thwarted by the so-called Chappaquiddick incident, in which he crashed a car and left a woman, who had previously worked on his brother Robert's campaign, to die.
Apparantly, holding a birthday party for a major bank executive on the verge of a banking crisis does not exactly help your image during a campaign. That this affair is going to threaten the CDU in the German federal elections is highly doubtful.
A 13 year old Dutch girl set on sailing around the world on her own (for two years) and supported by her parents is currently fighting for that right. This is her homepage, currently only available in Dutch.
In other news, Feminists vs. Peta in Portland. Why?
"PETA's protests have featured nude women in cages, and most recently, the organization produced a billboard that pictured a fat woman in a bikini that read, "Save the whales! Lose the blubber. Go vegetarian."No, campaigning for one good cause apparantly doesn't make you immune against stupidity.
OK, so I accept that every group has a right to lobby for their own ideas about policy. This is part of the political process. But somehow, when the catholic church campaigns against abortion with arguments that sound like the "we will become a minority in our own country"-nationalism we love and admire on the right-wing extremist side of the party spectrum, I fail to see why anyone should listen. Also, way to go on the "objective journalism", Presse.
"Es gibt heftige Diskussionen darüber, dass die westliche Welt ihren eigenen, katholischen Traditionen gleichgültig gegenübersteht und eine falsch verstandene Toleranz jenen gegenüber aufbringt, die unsere Werte untergraben wollen."Pop Culture:
Jonathan Lethem talks about Philip K. Dick.
The New York Magazine serenades Drew Barrymore (and "Whip It!"). "Drew Barrymore is sunshine. Drew Barrymore is cookies. Drew Barrymore is fluffy puppies and mild hallucinogenic drugs, tucked neatly into a gift basket made of daisies."
River Tam is fighting her way through io9's "Televion's Biggest Badass of All Time" Contest. She has already beaten Cameron from "Terminator". Is there a power in the 'verse that can stop this girl?
Trailer-Galore for some of the upcoming big Sci-fi movies from well-known directors (BSFMFWKD).
"Inception" by Christopher Nolan ("Memento", "The Dark Knight"). Features Leonardo DiCaprio, Marion Cotillard, Ken Watanabe, Cillian Murphy, Ellen Page and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
"Avatar" by James Cameron. Features Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Zoë Saldaña, Michelle Rodriguez and Giovanni Ribisi.
"District 9" (directed by Neill Blomkamp and produced by Peter Jackson), a South African movie read as a parable for the Apartheid regime, is already out in the US.
NY Times Review.
PopMatters Review.
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