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The movie adaptation of Dan Brown's international bestseller "The Da Vinci Code" opens this weekend in movie theaters across the Globe. This has recently rekindled the controversy surrounding this work of fiction, especially among the Catholics. The question is what would be the appropriate response to it, whether we should ban it, boycott it, or do something else. I for one have enjoyed reading the book, although some of its claims were so outrageously wrong that every once in a while I had to put the book down and have a good laugh. I am also planning on seeing the movie, and I hope that the action scenes are as good as possible so I don't have to lough too much. Otherwise people in the theatre might find me a tad bit annoying.

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Rainy days make me melancholy, but in a good kind of way. The last few days, a week almost, made me feel that way. It's been raining incessantly in Urbana, and the daytime temperature rarely climbed into sixties. I am not complaining, I just wish I used the opportunity for some walks in the rain. This kind of weather also makes my apartment a pleasant place to do work. Which is a good thing.

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May 1st is the international labor day, which means that it's celebrated as such everywhere except in the US. In the US the Labor Day is celebrated on the first Monday of September. In the communist countries May 1st was probably consider THE holiday, as these regimes were based on the idea that they owed their very existence to the overcoming of labor oppression. In reality, it was just yet another excuse for laborers not to work. The avoidance of work in communist countries became a veritable art form, which to anyone with a bare modicum of intelligence comes as no surprise: if all labor is valued more or less equally, what incentive does anyone have to work more than anyone else? And herein lays probably the simplest explanation for why communism collapsed: it collapsed because it didn't work.

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