"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine": so uttered a distraught and heartbroken Humphrey Bogart in the iconic Casablanca. It's one of the film's many lines that get to the core of human relationships. By fate or happenstance, Ilsa Lund"played by ...
Richard Dawkins must be one execrable speck of a man. The outspoken atheist never tires of picking on the pious, slamming them as ignorant fools beholden to anachronistic beliefs. Cantankerous and self-righteous, Dawkins refuses to argue with creationists because, as he once commented, it affords ...
Economics can be a misleading subject. When it comes to devising useable theories on boosting economic growth, its professional gurus often pretend to be a step above the political class; as intellectuals, they fancy themselves to be in a superior position to advise. If the economy is sluggish, ...
An almost botched execution in Oklahoma has revived a debate of sorts about capital punishment in America. After the failed injection of a lethal "cocktail," a mix of three drugs which was supposed to work quickly, Oklahoma prisoner Clayton Lockett was left struggling in pain for 43 minutes ...
Last Christmas Day, a drone missile flew into the Pakistani village of Qutab Khel and killed four suspected militants. Their identities couldn"t be confirmed because their bodies were reduced to charred remains. The protests of families who resided in the decimated village were ignored. On the ...
The most recent moment of defining culture for the DC metropolis wasn"t the finagling over the nation's debt ceiling or the tug of war over restoring funding to military pensions. It was the premiere of a television show. The Netflix drama House of Cards has been hyped up specifically to ...
On Christmas Day, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden released a video statement on the implications of massive government spying. The exile to Russia reminded us once again that Western governments have worked in cahoots to establish a worldwide Orwellian surveillance network. He laughably implored ...
Erstwhile pop singer Aaron Carter and his wizened face recently made the plunge every onetime celebrity makes at least once in his life. The younger brother of Backstreet Boy Nick Carter filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on October 23, 2013. Despite his short success as a kind of happy-go-lucky ...
Politicians and drugs: Is there ever a more brilliant combination? Toronto Mayor Rob Ford doesn"t seem to think so. A man who loves to hit the sauce, Ford is fighting to maintain his office over an alleged cell-phone video showing him smoking crack cocaine. The police have reportedly obtained ...
