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I was getting ready to start my day early this morning when my phone rang. It was a friend of mine in DC who wanted to know if I had seen and/or blogged about a comment Barack Obama made recently at a speech in Colorado. I told him it was unlikely and asked what he said that was so earth shattering.

I was getting ready to start my day early this morning when my phone rang. It was a friend of mine in DC who wanted to know if I had seen and/or blogged about a comment Barack Obama made recently at a speech in Colorado. I told him it was unlikely and asked what he said that was so earth shattering.

Yes, they’re redoing the 1951 classic, The Day the Earth Stood Still and the Apple Trailers page has a teaser trailer (Quicktime 9 required). It stars Keanu Reeves but I can’t tell if he’s in the Michael Renee role or not (nor is Patricia Neal in it).

The Crab Nebula was born to humanity on July 4th in the year 1054 with the observance of a supernova by Chinese astronomers.

It actually happened 6,500 years before that, since the star that exploded was 6500 light years away from the Earth and took that long to get here.

People are still surprised to look up at the sound of a jet aircraft only to find that it isn't there, having moved on to

As we celebrate the birth of our nation lets remember that even though it is far from perfect it is still the greatest nation on Earth. We have freedoms here that several nations could only dream of having. I think it was Churchill that said" A republic for a government is the worst kind to have behind all the others"...

Knowing how I feel about The Wire and Deadwood, do any of you who have seen The Shield recommend that I get into it? It keeps making people’s top lists.

It's just appalling to me that some of us would rather have people starve than to have them "dispersing into the neighborhood."