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In 1064, Turkish armies laid siege to Ani, a bustling, largely Armenian city of 200,000. They were ordered to destroy Ani, and kill everyone they found. In 2011, Elle Turkey used the ruins left behind for a fashion story. More »
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So, Sharon Stone has blamed "bad karma" for the Chinese earthquake. By that rationale, an earthquake that has killed just under a hundred thousand people in a largely Tibetan province of western China is some sort of punishment for the central government's paranoid repression of its Tibetan population. Now, it goes without saying that Sharon Stone's only discernible quality (not feature) is that she's a fucking idiot. She came around to Tibetan Buddhism via Richard Gere after a supposedly long romance with Scientology. She has lied about everything from belonging to Mensa to the Tanzanian government's dispensing of mosquito nets. Of AIDS, she has said, "AIDS is what happens when you forget to look at the person next to you." But today, I give thanks to Sharon Stone, because perhaps her ignorant, idiotic words will remind all of us how fucking inane it is to invoke "karma" in most conversation, i.e. "Karma is a bitch." KARMA IS NOT A BITCH. Saying "karma is a bitch" to couch in hippie moral superiority a basic conveyance of schadenfreude is highly irritating. For one thing: More »
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