I must confess that while I'd read about Obamamania I hadn't quite grasped its depth and the hold that it has over Obamamaniacs until I read the comments on my "Obama's big speech" post. Obama is brave to give this speech. Obama's talking about unity and I should only judge him by his words and […]
I saw the movie first on HD-DVD (yes, dead format, I know, who'd have thought Sony of the Betamax, ATRAC3 and UMD would get something right) last week and was pleasantly surprised. The film had slipped past my radar -- and that of most of the public -- when it was first released in theaters. […]
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 […]
Time magazine pop culture columnist James Poniewozik reveals that he's an Obama supporter. He also joins the few media people (which include yours truly) that are pushing for transparency from the media on their political biases. The reasons not to say whom you're voting for boil down mainly to the interests of journalists, not those […]
Tomorrow morning, Democrat presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama is going to give a major speech in Philadelphia that will touch on the subject of race and his pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Obama has attended Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago for 20+ years. Wright married Barack and his wife Michelle and baptized their […]
Last week, the U.S. State Department removed China from its list of the world's worst human-rights abusers. This week, China's killing Tibetans in a crackdown on protests reminsicent of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. And the International Olympic Committee thought having China host the Olympics was a good idea?
Barack Obama may have what appears to be an ethical problem. Dan Riehl notes, via Amanda Carpenter, that in the list of earmarks he requested, $1 Million was requested for the construction of a new hospital pavilion at the University Of Chicago. The request was put in in 2006. You know who works for the […]