Archive for April, 2008
An Olympic Scrap at the FCC
That a country like China can claim the international prestige of hosting the Olympics is pretty ridiculous. I won’t bother getting into their flagrant human rights abuses, censorship borne of a fear of knowledge and unmitigated arrogance on the world stage; that would be redundant. The question sometimes comes up as to whether someone with [...]
Censorship in Thai Cinemas
Despite Thailand’s leaders promoting the country as a democracy, it’s still got quite a way to go until it truly is what they claim. Nowhere is this more evident than when you go to see a movie, where scenes deemed ‘harmful to Thai society’ are routinely blurred, pixelated, or just plain excised. In [...]
The Fitna Controversy
If you haven’t been reading the news lately, Dutch MP Geert Wilders has released a 17 minute movie called Fitna, which means ’struggle’ or ’strife’ in Arabic. Fitna is causing a lot of controversy around the world because of its extreme anti-Islam stance. On the heels of the Muhammad cartoon controversy, Islamic extremism [...]
Indy Deserves More
As is obvious if you’ve read my previous post on watching the Indiana Jones movies with my Indiana-virgin girlfriend, I’m a pretty huge fan. It should come as no surprise, then, that the fourth movie in the series, Indiana Jones and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has me jumping up and down like a [...]
