No marriage I can't believe what I read. A Louisiana justice of the peace, in 2009, refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple. I suspect he's a smoker of crack. Keith Bardwell said, “I do ceremonies for black couples right here in my house. My main concern is for the children…I don't do interracial marriages because I don't want to put children in a situation they didn't bring on themselves. In my heart, I feel the children will later suffer.” Then he said, “I try to treat everyone equally.” First of all, how has he gotten away with refusing to issue marriage licenses to interracial couples? Second, unless he knows of specific instances of children being abused or neglected, it's not his business. Third, he may as well get out of the marriage business if he's concerned about break-ups. The divorce rate in the US is almost 50 percent. There must be more to the story. Nonetheless, even if he was set up, he ensnared himself. – lashawnbarber.com Bin Laden Osama Bin Laden has all but vanished from the radar of the American media/public. Even president Barack Obama seems no longer interested in Bin Laden, while the world had thought that the “war against terror” was all about capturing bin Laden! The present chase to capture Al-Qaeda looks like fighting with the severed tail of a lizard. Meanwhile Osama, dead or alive, manages to come back into spotlight. Whether one hates him or not, one can't but admire his wife Najwa, their son Omar Bin Laden, and Jean Sasson (a New York Times bestselling author) provide fascinating insights into Bin Laden family's private lives in a new book Growing Up bin Laden. Najwa, who married her cousin Osama Bin Laden at the age of 15, is his first wife and the mother to seven of his sons and four of his daughters. She currently lives with three of her eleven children in the Middle East. Omar Bin Laden, the fourth son of Osama bin Laden, has publicly called for his father to “change his ways.” Both Omar and his mother left Afghanistan before September 11, 2001, and neither has been in contact with Osama bin Laden since. – pakspectator.com Wild Things Spike Jonze is known for making uncomfortable films – I still can't think about the ending of Being John Malkovitch without squirming — but Where The Wild Things Are may be his coldest comfort yet. Let's get this out of the way right away: Jonze's Wild Things is only an adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's book in the loosest possible sense. It shouldn't surprise anyone that Jonze, whose Adaptation was a dissertation on the impossibility of adapting a literary work to film, has treated the Sendak book as a mere jumping-off point. There are only a handful of incidents in Sendak's book, but at least half of them don't appear in the movie. Instead of using the book's spare narrative as a framework and adding to it, the movie mostly creates a new story from scratch.
