Nearly 50 women and children have been found with their throats cut or bearing stab wounds in Homs, prompting hundreds of families to flee the battered Syrian city.

Homs Horror: 47 Women And Children Butchered By Regime (The Australian)

And in Afghanistan: Taliban Vow Revenge For US Soldier’s Attack On Afghans (Guardian)

Ex-Spider-Man director.

Does whatever an ex-Spider-Man director does.

Drawing in part on private emails written by the show’s principals, Ms [Julia] Taymor’s court filing alleges that the pair were largely absent from the show’s crucial developmental stages, delivered unsuitable music and lyrics, conspired with the producers to oust her and were “frequently distracted” from their duties – on one occasion in Bono’s case, by alcohol and supermodels including Christy Turlington.


U2’s Bono is Cast As Villain In Latest Twist To Row Over Spider-Man Broadway Musical (Telegraph)


Paul Krugman (with ‘Keynes’ the cat).

Dire predictions? He’s got a Nobel for them.

And every slight uptick in an austerity economy has been hailed as proof that the policy works. Irish austerity has been proclaimed a success story not once but twice, first in the summer of 2010, then again last fall; each time the supposed good news quickly evaporated.

You may ask what alternative countries like Greece and Ireland had, and the answer is that they had and have no good alternatives short of leaving the euro, an extreme step that, realistically, their leaders cannot take until all other options have failed — a state of affairs that, if you ask me, Greece is rapidly approaching.

What Greece Means (Paul Krugman, New York Times)

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