It’s Rihanna’s business
Super-ultra-pop-star Rihanna is a lot of things: model, former beauty queen, Barbadian youth cultural ambassador (!), frequent Billboard presence, wackadoo fashion icon, and a scant “score-and-one” years old. After an alleged argument that ended in alleged violence with boyfriend-singer Chris Brown a few weeks ago, however, it seems the media would like to cram a [...]
Little Ms. Cobain celebrates a birthday
Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of the late Kurt Cobain, recently decided to throw herself a “Suicidal Sixteen” birthday party. Now look, I’m all for themed parties, and if any other teenage girl planned this macabre festivus, I suppose we’d just shake our heads and mutter something about kids today before returning to our “Murder She [...]
Red, white, and deadly blue
By Dave Carpenter Reviewing the grimly fascinating fallout from Seung-Hui Cho’s Virginia Tech rampage and posthumous media spectre, I was particularly amazed by the Sunday New York Times’ colour-coded “info graphic,” illustrating how on average 81 Americans die each day from firearms. The cold hard truth that so many of them turn the barrel toward [...]
Imagination is not reality
By Frank Moher We’d barely learned the identity of the Virginia Tech killer when the professional psych brigade told us they had him pegged. In heavy rotation on CNN Tuesday night was a psychiatrist offering her instant analysis of Cho Seung-Hui, based, among other things, on plays he wrote for a creative writing class. “You [...]
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