I’m not usually one for “Top” lists. Whether it’s songs, performers, actors, whatever. But once in a while I feel the need to be as opinionated as the next person. After reading a fellow writer’s post at blogcritics.org listing his favourite twenty female movie actors of the past fifteen years …

...you can hear the music but also see where it comes from, read about that place and feel involved in the culture

...now when someone says he or she is a reformer, you can’t be sure what is meant.

We could call this summer Men In Black 3 or the Birth of Mask ...

Hunter S. Thompson will take his last flight. Happy landings!

...a lot of confusion among them about the difference between free speech and lying.

So called classless societies have been developed but have proved failures as elites have formed to lord privileges over those less fortunate.

...you can tell you’ve crossed a boundary the moment you get out of your car.

In too many parts of the world, women are still considered no more than chattel.

You are your own best hope for a better world, don't let anyone tell you otherwise, and don't trade it away for the false hope of instant gratification.