What's with the acid attack crap?

One of the problems I have with the U.S. is our justice system. It sucks. I won't go into a long diatribe about it. You know it. I know it. It sucks.

We need to adopt the eye-for-an-eye policy they have in Iran. Some guy tossed acid into a woman's face who jilted him and the Iranian courts ruled that the man will have 10 drops of sulphuric acid placed in each eye as his form of punishment.

I'm in favor of the death penalty...and I've been a proponent for - oh...chopping off the hands of thieves as they do in Asia and the Middle East. But we'll never do that because everyone thinks it's too barbaric - too "3rd World" for the U.S; therefore, our justice system will continue to be made a mockery of. I guess there are those in our government who enjoy being "walked all over" in the name of "democracy" and "fairness" and "individual rights".

Barbaric? Cruel and unusual? Tell that to the woman the man blinded in both eyes.

Apparently this psychotic use of acid is nothing new - I found reports of school girls getting it in Afghanistan and another jilted lover in India. Horrible - but I approve the manner in which the Iranian government is using it.

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Go see "Slumdog Millionaire".

From director Danny Boyle ("Trainspotting", "28 Days Later"), comes a unique film that is a masterpiece in cinematography - like a series of photographs strung together with music and dialogue. Great film. Great storyline (wish I would've thought it up myself).

My only complaint is the subtitles in about the first 1/4 of the film. Explain to me, someone, how I'm supposed to read a white-lettered subtitle on a white background?

Someone. Bueller? Anyone? For a complete review, check out Blogcritics.org here.

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AHHH! Oh - look at the pretty colors. AHHH!

(photo courtesy of The Associated Press)

Saw this on the cover of The Wall Street Journal this morning. Pictured above are state government employees in India protesting, demanding pay increases and other concessions. The police are using COLORED-water cannons on the protesters.

Why the colored water...and why the purple-colored water? I'm sure there's a logical explanation. Maybe it makes the demonstrators happier as long as they're being blasted with colored, high-pressured water, thus making them more docile and easier to quell. Or maybe the AP photographer said, "I'm sorry but this isn't working for me. Could we have some teal - no, purple-ish, violet water instead of the regular water? Good. Now THAT's the India I wanna capture!"

It does make for a prettier picture.

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