Yingluck Shinawatra expected to visit Australia in May - Thai Travel News

All the women leaders should get together to end this male madness,

Yingluck Shinawatra expected to visit Australia in May - Thai Travel News

Whip-Its: Dangerous Teen Craze Making a Comeback - ABC News

Will Smith's daughter has a lot to answer for.

Whip-Its: Dangerous Teen Craze Making a Comeback - ABC News

Berlin

As Nagorski points out, Berlin was, during the interwar period, the most interesting and exciting city on Earth. A sublime and cutting-edge culture was combined with peculiar politics, skyrocketing inflation and a lot of kinky sex. The political drama was rendered all the more fascinating by the shenanigans of a clown called Hitler whom few observers took seriously. Americans were welcomed because they represented the New World, a state of aspiration for Germans. Given the inflation, American dollars were powerful, making the frolics these visitors could enjoy in this land of fantasy all the more intense.

This from a review of new book, Hitlerland.

This gives me a chance to say that Berlin was exciting before the National Socialists came to power. It was interesting afterwards to. I'm not sure it was ever a dull place. Nina Hagen came from Berlin..

Achievement

Lady Gaga has become the first living person to have 10 million followers on Facebook. Michael Jackson has more but he has died.

Cruel Maid

An HIV positive 17-year-maid from Masvingo in Zimbabwe was caught lacing the porridge of her employer's 4-year-old child with her own menstrual blood, cruelty that earned her a 10-year prison term,

Wow! That is surely surging up the charts of the cruelty of maids.

Randism

Ayn Rand was a Russian from a prosperous family who emigrated to the United States. Through her novels, such as Atlas Shrugged, and her non-fiction, such as The Virtue of Selfishness, she explained a philosophy she called Objectivism. This holds that the only moral course is pure self-interest. We owe nothing, she insists, to anyone, even to members of our own families. She described the poor and weak as refuse and parasites, and excoriated anyone seeking to assist them. Apart from the police, the courts and the armed forces, there should be no role for government: no social security, no public health or education, no public infrastructure or transport, no fire service, no regulations, no income tax.

I knew Ayn Rand was on someone's radar. I first came across her name with regard to the band Rush and their track Trees. I didn't know she was this radical. No-one wonder she is a pin-up to some people.