Chris Barna’s Weblog

Fox Searchlight appears to have scripts for a bunch of their movies available on their website. Among the released scripts are Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited, Juno, The Namesake and Once.

The legitimacy of torture as an investigative tool is the latest in a progression of disturbing and horrific topics the news media is now presenting to its audience, like the potential of an Ebola attack on an American city or a terrorist nuclear strike, the kind that, as an article in The Economist [...]

Christian Davenport is a professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland. Beyond that, he is also an activist and a consultant. He is particularly interested in in violence and conflict and the governments affiliated with them. I asked him a few questions on the media’s role in torture. It was my first attempt [...]

Waterboarding is a hotly contested technique that simulates drowning by pouring water into somebody’s mouth. This video was made for Al Gore’s TV channel, Current. Watch out, it’s pretty graphic.

The United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in December of 1948: Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear [...]

Seeing as it has been a whole three weeks since I have posted, I feel it I need to do something to be reinvigorated in the “blogging spirit”. My idea is to choose one topic a week, do research on it (post the research), and then post an “official” opinion at the end of the [...]