Finally got around to watching Bowling for Columbine this evening on pay per view.

It's not particularly subtle but is nonetheless a thought provoking and well crafted doc. It's certainly held my attention for longer than Michael Moore's book Stupid White Men which -- though well intentioned -- felt like being trapped in a lift with a Guardian reading pub bore. I read it back-to-back with PJ O'Rourke's The CEO of the Sofa which was in an altogether different class. Proof, it were needed, that the devil has all the best tunes.

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