Dear Hollywood, are you trying to tell me something?

IMDB's home page. Do you notice anything?

Today I bumped upon IMDB as I came to know that a fourth chapter of Toy Story is in production: a sad commercial move. Anyway, when I loaded the home page, something has flashed before my eyes, something that should be self-evident by my screenshot above.

Hollywood's approach with violence - and guns in a particular way - clashes with many recent crime news and even with recent President Obama's words.

How do you expect that people stop killing each other, even without plausible reasons, if movies and culture promote the use of guns? As long as the coolness of characters remains proportional to the size of their weapons, it is no surprise that we won't do any progress.

However, this probably is not a problem for the lobbyists and I'm pretty sure that weapon producers are rubbing their hands for this kind of brain-shaping.

Signals of hope

Italian worst minister ever, Clemente Mastella, presented resignation this morning after the nth scandal involving him. After months of sufference and bad administration our Justice Ministry will be released.

In the meanwhile, students at Università la Sapienza prevented Pope's visit in the name of Science.

Good news is that there's still hope in this old, tired and stinky country.

Bad news is that our politicians raised the usual, transversal choir of disapproval. Even our prime minister Prodi defends such a criminal that stomped on justice even to help Mafia.