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First off, Happy Birthday to reene. I really need to give you the present that kamalloy and I got, but I keep forgetting to. We should work out a dinner sometime soon.

Second, interesting [Addendum: Sadly the link is down due to the controversy, I'll see if I can find it elsewhere] feminist critique (spoilers) of Children of Men. Although it gets overpopulation wrong. Overpopulation is on its way out as an issue. Yes, the world's population will still grow, but it's probably going to top out at around 10-11 billion so long as current trends stay in place (the rate of growth is dropping). Now there's going to be a real youth bulge problem in the Middle East, Indonesia, and a few other countries so that is a real overpopulation issue. But in much of the developed world as well as China are going to have to deal with aging problems. America is actually doing okay on that score because of immigration. Thematically, the movie is dead-on on this issue even if it doesn't focus on the facts of it.

This review is the subject of some controversy because it resulted in the writer resigning from the Edwards campaign.

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