Director Chan-wook Park (left) and Byung-hun Leek pose for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film "No Other Choice" during the London film festival on Oct. 15. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP) South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook’s new film, “No Other Choice,” is ...
There is a kind of madness to be seen at night by anyone driving the Hana Highway from the entrance to Baldwin Beach to Paia. There are so many reflecting traffic signs that one thinks that one has entered Vegas. Similarly, the madmen at the “Department of Roads” have now covered the roads of Haiku with speed tables. But why is one surprised? As above, so below. As within the consciousness, so the condition, surroundings and body of the man. Since the world, as manifested proximally and globally; and nature, as manifested, have tended toward madness, why should one question the ...
Think about it. Heads of government do not normally reveal the texts of private communications from other heads of state. Yet that is what Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store of Norway did Sunday, on the first weekend of the World Economic Forum in Davos, where the international press ...
It’s time to ask, what has this president done to make your life better? What has he done to improve the lives of anyone other than his complicit billionaire friends? Provoking both a war with our allies abroad and a civil war right here on US soil, while at the same time demanding a Nobel Peace prize, is a level of insanity never seen before. This is not a time to sit in silence watching 250 years of democracy vanish before your eyes. You have a voice. You can use it by peacefully protesting, boycotting, donating, volunteering or just having tough discussions with friends or ...
Throughout 2017 and into 2018, I hoped that a moment would come when Republicans would see Donald Trump clearly. But years ago, I accepted that the scales-falling-from-the-eyes revelation will never come for the MAGA faithful. They are too invested. Still, as a recent Chicago Tribune report ...
In recent days, the government in America has not only failed to protect the freedom of speech, it has attacked it. Like authoritarians throughout history, it has sought to silence the speech it hates and fears. But most authoritarians did not have a Constitution that was written as an ...
