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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 […]

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 […]

What's the difference between your crazy uncle and the pastor of your church? Usually they're not one and the same. That's true of Sen. Barack Obama too. And it's going to quickly become a problem. Sen. Barack Obama's pastor says blacks should not sing "God Bless America" but "God damn America." The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, […]

Rich Noyes and Brent Baker have noted how many media outlets have treated disgraced New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's party affiliation in their coverage this week. Baker reported that the "NBC Nightly News" never mentioned he was a Democrat, ABC's "World News Tonight" didn't mention any party affiliation Monday or Tuesday, but finally did Wednesday. […]