After seeing The Chumscrubber you'll just feel grateful to have survived adolescence more or less intact and to have escaped into the care-free days of adult hood. Who needs all that responsibility?

The real shadow from the past that is cast over Mr. Morales, and all attempts to create an egalitarian society in Latin America, is the threat of American intervention.

A Robertson presidency is nowhere near as far fetched now as it was in 1992.

He was a poet who was not afraid to split his ribs to show us his beating heart: that deserves to be honoured.

Being a blogger and being a writer is not necessarily the same thing, and it's nice to see that distinction finally being realized.

It is the last stage in throwing off the domination of the past and welcoming the glory of an independent future.

When people tell me to forgive and forget, I tell them I forgot for twenty years and look where it got me.

We have been hiding behind what we are supposed to do for each other for long enough now. Isn't it time that we grew up and learned how to have a conversation?

It was almost like reading descriptions of a variety of still life paintings. Charming to look at but no real depth beyond the use of colour and texture.

Once upon a time governments actually did things for their populations to try and make their lives better