Anyone with access to HBO should hasten to see “Vice Special Report: Killing Cancer,” a remarkable documentary look at the cutting edge of cancer therapy. Except there’s no cutting, irradiating or chemo involved. Instead, we visit a medical center in … Continue reading
Category Archives: Postmodern Times
There is no question that the Islamic State is a nasty piece of work, as he Brits used to say. Beheadings with rather paltry tools, no samurai swords or headsman’s axes for them. Burning alive. Killing the unarmed — women, … Continue reading
We live in an age of wonders, but often they are delivered in a way that is far from wonderful. Sometimes it seems we are living in a weirdly bifurcated world rather like those pictured in science-fiction dystopias like “Brazil” … Continue reading