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Epic Times - Man Caught on Camera Drugging a Woman's Drink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0Zl41oMa5I

Things everyone should know.. 22 Incredible Facts About the Life and Career of Sir Christopher Lee

Its funny because its true..

The True Scale of Tony Blair's Business Empire

Okay, I'll probably take some schtick for this, but I sat down and watched.. Barely Lethal. Hey, it has Samuel L Jackson for the background scene chewing, and Jessica Alba for the general pretty. It's still has a few amusing moments, the concept of a teenage girl raised in a "quasi-government assassin factory" who manages to fake her death so she can experience high school.. but all of her pre-conceptions are based on the high-school films she's managed to sneak viewing over the years. So she's acting off of Mean Girls, Clueless, Fast Times at Ridgemont High and the like. So you get a few pokes at the Hollywood teen/high school/college film industry. Oh yes, and it has Sansa Stark in it.

Epic Times - Jerry Doyle mugged on European Trip So, someone who just didn't like his acting?

Not strictly film I guess, but I watched the 6 hour mini-series Count of Monte Cristo from 1998. The Gerard Depardieu one. And yes, I watched it in French, with English subtitles. It's always nice to see a good adaption, although I was at first thrown by how they shifted the timelines around and told a chunk of the first half via flashback scattered throughout the rest of the episodes. Heh, and I've noticed a lot of adaptions like to change it so that Dante and Mercedes end up together again.

Alas, the wooden stake of the universe landed. Tis a sadness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gukTPRL--fE

The Boondock Saints. An amusing little silly violent film. Willem Dafoe working magic as the gay FBI agent on the Organised Crime Task Force, and Sean Patrick Flannery with Norman Reedus as the pair of good, catholic, irish brothers on a mission from god to kill the wicked. Plus a sparky surprise showing of Billy Connolly as a very violent man. I have to admit, it always seems like Flannery should have made it bigger after the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, but he seems to have slid into fairly solid tv work instead of bigger film roles.

Snerk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVylJLQn4vI

Since it's always worth a watch.. here for the general interest 15 Fun Facts About Young Frankentstein on its 40th Anniversary (note, the article has a bunch of actual clips to go with it)

For the Forbes... Forbes - Seeing the effects of Seattle's 15 an hour minimum wage No one at all has ever doubted that it is possible to increase employment and the minimum wage at the same time. The impact of the general economy is usually going to be larger than the impact of the minimum wage. The impact of that general economy could mean that employment rises, stays the same or falls, whatever happens to the minimum wage. But that’s not the interesting thing we’d like to know. Which is, what is the effect of raising the minimum wage on unemployment? Freed from the impacts of everything else happening in the economy? And there the standard answer is that it will raise unemployment and no, no one has managed to come up with a convincing case against this standard wisdom. Do note what actually happened in that general economy over that same time period. The US unemployment rate fell, over that year, from 6.6% to 5.6%. Seatac’s performance is, including the usual boundaries for error, actually the same as the US economy’s. Which isn’t all that surprising really as the minimum wage rise at Seatac affected 1,500 people (yes, that’s all) and we’d not expect to see any effect at all in macroeconomic figures from so trivial a change. However, we are seeing changes in the rather larger case of Seattle itself, as I predicted we would: Restaurants are closing at higher than normal rates. And Seattle is already a fairly high wage place: As Don Boudreaux likes to point out one of the reasons we don’t see large job losses (as opposed to small ones) from rises in the minimum wage is because we’ve had a minimum wage for a long time and have already lost a lot of jobs as a result. And there’s more such reporting going on too: Human labor really is an economic good like pretty much all of the others. Raise the price and the demand for it will drop (another way of putting this is that human labor is not a Giffen Good). Please do note though what is the prediction. Not that there’s going to be a wiping out of employment opportunities, nor that the economy of Seattle is going to become a howling wasteland. Rather, that less human labor will be employed at $15 an hour than would have been employed if the minimum wage had not risen to that amount. And for people who would like to have a job but now cannot find one that’s bad news.

Whose Line Is It Anyway. It's come a long way since its early days, first as a radio show and then tv on channel 4.. Although it's kind of amusing to see how half the rotating comedian guests are still involved 25 years on.

Because... Cats. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRUU_0LonTY