Archive for June, 2006

Colleen Graffy says suicide is an act of PR

Sunday, June 11th, 2006

Today in the morning, three Guantanamo Bay inmates — two Saudis and a Yemeni — were found dead in their cells. They had committed suicide by hanging themselves with bedsheets.
If you are held in a solitary chainlink pen for years without trial or evidence, and with no hope of release, I imagine you would also […]

The Proposition

Monday, June 5th, 2006

Watched The Proposition this weekend. Flawless movie; so flawless in its portrayal of violence that it can be hard to watch.
The basic idea is, in the late 19th century, the Burns brothers gang is robbing, murdering, and raping its way through the Australian outback. Captain Stanley manages to capture Charlie and Mikey Burns. But the […]