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What I Learned From Girl Scout?

Today the Girl Scouts turn 100. What a girl can learn from being a girl scout? Here are things that a girl can learn for being a part of girl scout. This list is actually a post by Kristi Gustafson Barlette in honoring their birthday. She was once a member of girl scout, for more than a decade! You can read the original post here. Here are 10 things you can learn from Girl Scout: You can make one heck of a moose Christmas ornament with a couple of  pom poms and a pipe cleaner. All sleep

A Thousand Words–Another Eddie Murphy’s Squandered Movie

Eddie Murphy comedy 'A Thousand Words' is all sorts of bad | In last year's "Tower Heist," Eddie Murphy seemed energized and pumped and poised for a comeback. In "A Thousand Words," the actor smashes all those hopes to bits. Forget it. The dream is dead. Why has this gifted comedian repeatedly squandered his talents on such crummy pictures? Even Adam Sandler hasn't amassed as many bad movies as Murphy has. ("Holy Man," "The Adventures of Pluto Nash," "The Haunted Mansion," "Imagine That" -- th

The Problem With Invisible Children's

The Problem With Invisible Children's "Kony 2012" | by Michael Deibert Recently, a new video produced by the American NGO Invisible Children focusing on Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has been making the rounds. Having just returned from the Acholi region of Northern Uganda myself, where the LRA was born, I thought I might share some of my thoughts on the subject, for what it's worth. I think it is easy for Invisible Children and other self-aggrandizing foreigners to make the