Bend Sinister is a 1947 dystopian novel written by Vladimir Nabokov. The titleA "bend sinister" is a heraldic device: a bar drawn from the upper-left side of a shield (from the perspective of the shieldbearer) to the lower-right. In the introduction Nabokov wrote for the Time Reading Program edition in 1963, he explains, "This choice of a title was an attempt to suggest an outline broken by refraction, a distortion in the mirror of being, a wrong turn taken by life."

We’ve covered the history of dirty politics in the U.S. here at Freakonomics. But what about the modern state of affairs? Allen Raymond knows a thing or two about bending the rules in the electoral process. A former G.O.P. political operative who served as chief of staff to a co-chairman of the Republican National Committee [...]

40% of this article was censored by US Magazine "Foreign Affairs". It contains the message of Russia to the World, that is constantly bended and twisted by Western Mainstream Media.

All these countries come in with their convictions for something substantive regarding climate initiative and bend over once more to the Bush Administration. What a great weekend for golf.