Politics

We turned off the main road to Awassa, talked our way past security guards and drove a mile across empty land before we found what will soon be Ethiopia's largest greenhouse. Nestling below an escarpment of the Rift Valley, the development is far from finished, but the plastic and steel structure already stretches over 50 acres* -- the size of 20 soccer fields.

 A weekend admission by former Alaskan governor and U.S. vice-presidential hopeful Sarah Palin over her family’s use of the Canadian health care system while growing up in Alaska has critics of the outspoken hockey mom crying foul online.

This is just a quick rant regarding the the unmitigated, relentless and inexcusable stupidity of keeping marijuana illegal and lying about it nonstop with taxpayer money, not that many taxpayer's mind, since many still actually believe the shit.

Well, of course you're right - lots of taxpayers DON'T believe it. They are good Americans who simply put up with abjectly stupid shit because that's what Americans are used to.

The unusually lengthy list of nominees for this year's Best Picture Oscar features a slew of do-gooder films about the suffering of others. Most are about people who are at a considerable cultural distance from the white, middle-class Americans that are the primary consumers of these films.