Martin Amis – Misanthrope Or Freedom Fighter?

Martin Amis’s critics claim he is devolving into his father, the scowling, spitting misanthrope who somehow distilled the spirit of the 1950s into his novel Lucky Jim. Kingsley was, towards the end of his life, a militant defender of the Vietnam War and a harrumphing foe of feminism, and said of apartheid South Africa: “You should shoot as many blacks as possible.”

Movie Industry Goofed On College Downloading (So Where’s The Apology?)

“We also have to admire the MPAA’s arrogance. The MPAA now asserts that college students account for 15 percent rather than 44 percent of the P2P piracy affecting the motion picture industry. However the press release says nothing — not a word — about the source of the other ’85 percent’ of the P2P piracy that affects the industry’s revenues, the activities of “civilians” who use consumer broadband services.”