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A fearful read if all the details are true. I seldom read political non-fiction, but this book was very interesting, attempting to show that Bush, and moreover Cheney, sought to enter Iraq as soon as they assumed the Presidency.

I saw Thank You for Smoking, a film based on the book of the same name penned by Buckley. I enjoyed the satire in the movie and assumed correctly that Boomsday would be similar. It is, only instead of smoking, the culprit is aging. Think Swift’s A Modest Proposal with geriatrics in the main role. Or roll, as the case may be.

I find the Writer’s strike fascinating, and not just because I wish I were one of them. Not necessarily striking and not making money (although some days it feels like that), but I find their motivations just, and the ramifications of their choice are already occurring and will soon be imminently noticeable. The irony is that as the new fall season was beginning, I had almost chosen to put our Netflix membership on hiatus, what with so many enjoyable shows to watch. Now that the strike seems to be for the long-haul, I’m upping our number of DVDs out. That makes me wonder, although I think I know the answer, do the writer’s get a piece of my $15/month for Netflix?

As for the prompting of this post, Damon Lindelof, co-writer of LOST, wrote an article about the strike for the New York Times. To him, it is about money, but it’s also about more than that. It’s about the future of television.