Tourists do not have a right to take pictures of children

We are currently living in a place where children regularly work. I see them every day, selling fruit or postcards, making food and change and food stalls at the markets, and even in shops. This isn’t great. It is illegal. This place is also a highly touristed...

Teen Dramas: John Hughes, Part 1 – The Problem with Sixteen Candles

The king of teen movies in the 1980s is without question John Hughes. Between 1984 and 1987 he released six movies: Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Some Kind of Wonderful. These are all movies...

30 April 2017: Everything Counts

I ate a chocolate bar today, but it was a mini so it didn’t count. We would like to think lots of little things we do don’t matter. And this can often spill over into bigger, more important things. Especially if these are things done to us. He hit me, but...

Review: Girls–American Bitch

The third episode in the last season of Girls had a pretty strong effect on me. A bottle episode, it focuses on one day, one apartment and one conversation between Hannah and a writer she admires, Chuck Palmer. The premise seems simple enough:  he has...

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