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What Happened to The Mafia? 14 May 2010 | 04:59 pm
Whatever happened to the Cosa Nostra? Where are the Gambinos, the Bonnanos, the Luccheses? It seems like eons have passed since the American Italian Mafia has made headlines. It seems like the only Ma...
German Film Industry Produces a Bounty of Screen Gems 10 May 2010 | 04:30 pm
Heard of Werner Herzog? August Diehl? Bruno Ganz? Jürgen Prochnow? Klaus Kinski? If you haven't, you most likely have seen some of their work without realizing it. Herzog is one of the most celebrated...
Why is the US in Iraq? Here’s a New Theory 3 May 2010 | 02:42 pm
For what motive did the United States invade Iraq in 2003? The question is seldom asked anymore, and the answer is just as elusive as it was seven years ago. Let me first say that I'm a firm believer ...
Nine Years of Living Abroad…Am I Nuts? 26 Apr 2010 | 03:53 am
By the time the month of June rolls around, I will have lived as an expatriate for nine years. I have no regrets and will likely end my life living quite far away from the land where I was born: Canad...
Hollywood Stars and their Less Famous Acting Siblings 19 Apr 2010 | 11:38 am
Not surprisingly, there are a lot of brothers and sisters in Hollywood as the acting bug tends to spread among families. Which movie stars of today have a brother or sister, or even several in the sam...
Hugo Chavez’ New Youth Movement Reminder of Hitler Youth, Cultural Revolution 17 Apr 2010 | 04:37 pm
The recently released film clips of Venezuelan minors dressed in uniforms pledging their allegiance to the cause of president Hugo Chavez' Bolivarian Revolution sent chills around the world. For some ...
Russia’s Dalliances with Venezuela Set Dangerous Precedent 10 Apr 2010 | 01:42 pm
About the same time US president Barack Obama was boasting about the new nuclear arms reduction deal he negotiated with Russia, Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin was busy visiting Caracas, negotia...
Are Alexa, Quantcast and Compete Credible? 4 Apr 2010 | 12:30 pm
Many otherwise intelligent people think the web statistics purveyed by Alexa and Compete.com are reliable, when in reality they're usually rough estimates which they derive from their own data sources...
17 Most Useful WordPress Plugins 4 Apr 2010 | 12:19 pm
Wordpress has a very large number of free plugins that extends its functionality in every imaginable way. It's time consuming to sift through them all to find those that perform the tasks we need in a...
The Tricky Business of Getting Other Sites to Link to Yours 29 Mar 2010 | 04:27 am
Promoting your web site takes a lot of work and even more patience. Your strategy should include finding ways to get other sites to link to yours, what is commonly known in web parlance as backlinks. ...
