Category Archives: News and politics

Edit [05:17, 27th July 2009] – Since I wrote this article, president Obama has since softened his stance on the Cambridge police’s actions. Edit [13:55, 27th July 2009] – I’ve now edited several portions of this article again, after doing … Continue reading →

[This is one of two articles I wrote as part of some free-lance work for an online magazine; as these pieces didn’t get published, I’ve decided to put them up here] ARTICLE: “Many people just don’t see illegal file-sharing as … Continue reading →

[This is one of two articles I wrote as part of some free-lance work for an online magazine; as these pieces didn’t get published, I’ve decided to put them up here] ARTICLE: This story [of the heading] was thrown around … Continue reading →

Okay, this was one really awkward interview, at least for Brewster who became clearly upset toward the end and even snapped “cut the mic, please” right at the end. The issue of debate? well it was meant to be Letterman’s … Continue reading →

I had an interesting conversation with Negar – a girl friend of mine — a while back, about the state of affairs in Iran, and about why she didn’t want to go back. We talked about a lot [else], but … Continue reading →

Via CNN Politics I love Jack Cafferty, and the Cafferty File was one of those programs on CNN I stayed up late every night to watch, whilst on Holiday last year [in hind-sight perhaps I should have been out in … Continue reading →

Or perhaps I should say the 18yo model that may just cost him a couple billion pounds in alimony in a case that many are calling the most expensive divorce in history. I blog about Silvio Berlusconi fairly often on … Continue reading →

Just catching up on this whole fiasco b/w Pelosi and the CIA. It’s been a while since I blogged about Politics, but certainly not the first time I’ve written about Gingrich’s alarmist shenanigans. From what I understand, Pelosi was briefed, … Continue reading →

So this whole ugly episode has come to an and Rod Blagojevich has been kicked out of office with a 59-0 vote against him at the Illinois senate. I’d written a previous post about the media’s potrayal of Rod, and … Continue reading →

Whoa… that was a marathon. 50 minutes is the longest I’ve seen one of these last, and while he didn’t address all the issues, Robert Gibbs did lay out a lot of the agenda for the first few days of … Continue reading →