Here’s some good evidence of why the RIAA is evil. Yes, evil. Or bad, wicked, not good. A guy in Chicago is delivered a letter saying the RIAA is going to sue him. He knows he’s done nothing wrong, and he even hires an expert to examine his computer and make sure he doesn’t have any illegally downloaded music on it. Then he calls the RIAA to say there must be some mistake, but he can’t even get in touch with one of their lawyers, just a “Settlement Hotline.” (“For the low, low price of only $3,750, you can make…
So, the most accurate study up until now showing how many Iraqis had died as a result of the US invasion was 100,000, based on a 2004 Lancet survey. Before you discount it, you should probably listen to this. Even Joanna agrees the survey is probably accurate. And since they purposely didn’t survey Fallujah, it’s probably much higher than that. The most disturbing part? Almost all the deaths could be directly attributed to Coalition forces, rather than death from disease, etc, attributed to war. Well, they’ve updated it for 2006, and are up to 650,000 deaths over baseline. To put…
Amazingly, we’ve watched two good movies in a row. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang was excellent. It’s clearly taken a page from Pulp Fiction but is worlds funnier. Absolutely hilarious on the surface, and a lot of the dialogue is subtly funny. There’s a character named Flicka which eventually leads to the line, “Oh, my friend flicka told me,” which wouldn’t have been funny if they’d try to play it up. The narration was done by someone aware that he’s narrating a movie, which is old, but not too bothersome. A-.
We just finished watching Thank You for Smoking. Hilarious look at big tobacco from their side. Most entertaining movie we’ve seen in awhile. A-.
Berck had a three-day weekend (because of that glorious of all holidays, Columbus Day). He also has this coming Friday off. But he has to work Saturday the next day. We traveled down to Pueblo on Friday evening for dinner with Berck’s buddy from work who just got a job down there teaching ROTC students how to fly. They served us a huge pile of homemade wontons. Berck and I love wontons, but we’re used to eating maybe two at a time from a Chinese restaurant. We did our best but still couldn’t finish the pile. And they were better…