The Modern Gal is already ahead of her movie-watching totals of last year, having finally completed “Thank You for Smoking” a year after it arrived in her mailbox, courtesy of Netflix. Definitely a winner for smart, savvy modern gals and guys like yourself. You’ll marvel at yourself for kinda rooting on the lobbyist for the smoking industry.

I haven’t read the novel by Christopher Buckley, which the movie is based on. I do plan on reading his more recent work, “Boomsday,” another satire which proposes government sanctioned-suicides to prevent the national social security and economic crisis that is expected to occur when baby boomers hit retirement age.