In 2008, history was made in the United States. For the first time, a black man was elected president of the United States (and in the primaries he fought Hillary Rodham Clinton, a woman, and Bill Richardson, a Latino). Not only was Barack Hussein Obama...
Anti-rape police campaign poster. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/8179353.stm In the past week, I have been truly appalled by the attitudes being demonstrated by our politicians towards rape. On both sides of the pond we have had controversial statements...
Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander Baldur Bragason/Columbia TriStar Marketing Group, Inc. The Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson is, without doubt, a publishing phenomenon.  Initially a word-of-mouth success, sales had reached an incredible 65 million by...
Movies about “tough subjects” can be a chore to watch. You feel like you’re supposed to learn something at the end, or else you get sucked into a maudlin cryfest that feels like a Lifetime Movie Special. But I recently saw a movie that dealt with...
Miley Cyrus One of the biggest stories sweeping through pop culture right now involves pictures that purport to show teenage singer Miley Cyrus’s exposed labia. Gossip blogger Perez Hilton posted a picture to his website last week that was angled up...
