I've recently seen an outstanding WWII-era movie called "The Ox-Bow Incident," starring Henry Fonda & Harry Morgan. The movie is ostensibly a western, set in a small Nevada town in the mid-19th century. However, unlike other western movies of its day, in which you can tell the good guys from…
The weather channel has now been accused of having a pro-weather bias. Weather Channel Accused of Pro-Weather Bias Also consider a more serious media-crit piece by the Onion: an interview of a hot air balloonist who keeps trying to make his point.
Corn ethanol is a terribly costly and damaging joke that has been inflicted on us by politicians looking for something that looks like a fix, rather than doing the much harder work to find real solutions to our energy problems. I've posted on corn ethanol before, and it's now time…
Yes, there is another side to this conflict, even in Israel (despite this vote by the U.S. Congress, 390 - 5). [youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mc9DN2Oi0-w[/youtube] It's the same issues every time a country wants to go to war. And the same media problems.
I like Neil DeGrasse Tyson. He's up there, in my book, with Sagan and Gould and Greene as one of the Great Explainers. One reason, he has a terrific sense of humor.