It seems that Republican Rick ( also known as " he who shall not be googled") Santorum has much in common with Iran's lunatic Prez, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.   Both men claim to be doing the will of the Almighty.  Both think 'God is on their side and the other side is possessed by " you know who".  It would be funny if it weren't so scary and if nuclear weapons were not on the table. Santorum and Ahmadinejad are just a couple of sock puppets, of course, with the real principal players off in the shadows posturing and making deals with each other.  The stakes are high and the testosterone flowing.  But the big question is, in spite of the media hype all over the world, will angry rhetoric and economic sanctions stop Iran's nuclear ambitions?  Or will it be bomb bomb Iran? The real players behind the curtain are the ones who will make the real decisions and at the  moment, only God knows what will happen. Personally, I would love to pu...

Yesterday, WikiLeaks dumped a trove of emails from a Texas-based intelligence firm called Stratfor that includes an insider talking about Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez's cancer. If the firm's Venezuelan sources are any good, it's very bad news for the Bolivarian strongman. Citing a "well-connected (Venezuelan) source," the analyst writes in December that Cuban and Russian doctors are bickering over how to treat Chavez's cancer, which has supposedly spread into his lymph nodes and up his spine. The prognosis? The Cubans say Chavez has two years to live, while the Russians believe he'll be dead in "less than one year." The leaked emails, written by a Stratfor analyst named Reva Bhalla -- a regular talking head on Fox News and CNN -- offer a grim picture of a brewing power struggle in Venezuela as Chavez's health teeters for the worst. She writes that the Venezuelan's two sets of doctors have been fighting over how to treat his cancer, wh...

Mann, who co-founded New York's Circle in the Square Theatre and its school, passed away on Friday of complications from pneumonia. Charlotte St Martin from The Broadway League said his contributions to theatre were "immeasurable". Mann, who directed more than 200 productions, received his first Tony award in 1957 for Long Day's Journey into Night. In 1976 he was presented with a special Tony for 25 years of work with the Circle in the Square and its school for young actors, which he co-founded in 1951. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kevin Bacon, Lady Gaga and Benicio Del Toro were all students at the school. "His contributions to Broadway and off-Broadway are immeasurable, both in the productions he created and the talent that he nurtured,'' said St Martin. Together with Paul Libin, president of the Circle, Mann presented many new and classic works at the theatre. Notable productions t...