Some NASA robots are looking for the global warming in the area where the globe should warm the most -- the oceans. Problem: They're not finding any. Some 3,000 scientific robots that are plying the ocean have sent home a puzzling message. These diving instruments suggest that the oceans have not warmed up at all […]
Courtesy of "Best of the Web Today" comes this bit of history on how Sen. Barack Obama feels bigots should be treated. This is an ABC News report from April 11, 2007: In an interview with ABC News Wednesday afternoon, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., called for the firing of talk radio host Don Imus. Obama […]
The last of the big three of science fiction died yesterday. Like Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein before him, Arthur C. Clarke shuffled off this mortal coil after 90 years. I read many of Clarke's books in high school and college. Like many young boys, I started off with Heinlein in elementary and middle school. […]
I only saw bits and pieces of it as they were replayed on various news shows -- Hoystory doesn't begin operating at 7 a.m. PDT -- but Sen. Barack Obama's big speech was full of soaring rhetoric, signifying nothing. To be honest, there's little he could say or do to really address the underlying problems […]