Who knew personal computers were going to be such stool pigeons?
BROOKS: Here in L.A., they just had the murder trial of a man who allegedly broke his wife’s neck and left her in the river. They’re admitting his Google searches into evidence. He supposedly looked up “breaking necks” and checked water levels. When computers came in, everyone was saying, “This will be the most private way of communicating yet!” But now it turns out that every email you’ve ever sent will be on file forever. METRO: It seems like Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World was a way of trying to do something about the lack of understanding between the Arab and American realms. BROOKS: That’s the idea exactly! Looking at the news, there’s so little acknowledgement of the new world. It doesn’t pop up in the movies, directly anyway. I had to read the reviews of War of the Worlds to get the parallels between the Spielberg movie and the World Trade Center attack like how the aliens dusting people made sense, because there was so much dust after the explosions. Then are the Arabs s
