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I welcome our nanotech termite robot grey goo overlords

In response to Study: Termite Robots Build Castles, Pyramids: One step closer to the science-fiction implementation of nanotechnology: self-replicating robots small enough to manipulate individual cells in the body, or in the extreme example, atoms of matter.  It could be

'Noah' director faces criticism for artistic license

The Hollywood Reporter has a long article about the backlash director Darren Aronofsky has been getting from some Christians in the test audiences for his upcoming “Noah” epic, starring Russell Crowe as the Bible hero.  Aronofsky says only ten or

'Job lock' and supply-side economics

Back when that H-bomb of a Congressional Budget Office forecast landed on ObamaCare, and panicked Democrats began running around like maniacs and burbling that unemployment is the essence of freedom, I thought they were making a huge and dangerous concession

Filling our monthly bitter-pill subscription

In response to No Debt Ceiling Battle A Bitter Pill: I truly wish I had confidence that Speaker Boehner and the rest of the leadership would come roaring out of this debt-ceiling capitulation and deliver that focused battle against ObamaCare

Hanging out with Big Al de Tocqueville

In response to White House, Press Corps Cover up Obama’s ‘Alex de Tocqueville’ Gaffe: I’d be inclined to write this off as a simple verbal stumble – I suspect Obama knows that de Tocqueville did not go by “Alex” or

The payroll Inquisition

In response to Obamacare’s Directive 10-289: I kept waiting for some kind of punchline to this story, some walkback that would make it less creepy and totalitarian, but no, they’re serious.  They really are going to make executives sign Thought

Movie review: 'The Monuments Men'

George Clooney’s new World War II film, “The Monuments Men,” has to be one of the most ill-conceived major studio releases ever.  It’s not exactly a bad film or a hot mess; that would make it much more interesting –

NBC does a solid for the commies

Speaking of suppressed ideas and sloppy discourse, NBC is really going out of its way to make the Russians happy in its Sochi Olympics coverage.  Did you catch the powerful statement International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach delivered against discrimination

What passes beyond speech, passes beyond thought

Mark Steyn, the most important figure in the debate over free speech in America today – which, as he might say, isn’t a bad day’s work for a Canadian – makes a crucial point about the impulse to control words

Obama's know-nothing ambassadors

President Obama’s determined effort to find the most unqualified campaign donors he can possibly reward with important ambassadorial positions continues to bring comical, and disturbing, results.  First there was the hapless boob he tapped for ambassador to Norway, top Obama

The symbolism of silence

In response to Imagine If The GOP Did Something That Creepy: It’s all part of “otherization,” or what I once imagined as the “Shroud of Contempt.”  The goal is to strip the target of their very humanity.  Sarah Palin remains

Fear not, a talking-point barrage is incoming

In response to Democrats Silent After CBO Opens Up on Obamacare: Fear not, my friend, because the Democrats spent all day rehearsing their mindless parrot talking point, and downloading into the brains of their drone followers will commence forthwith.  That

'Fake but accurate' rock

In response to Red Hot Chili Peppers: We Faked Super Bowl Performance So As Not to ‘Pretend’… Or Something: Great, now the “fake but accurate” ethos has spread to rock bands.  They can’t even just admit to lip-syncingor instrument-syncing; they’ve

Electronic leashes for the wayward employee

Well, this isn’t creepy at all: Hitachi, the big electronics company based in Japan, is manufacturing and selling to corporations a device intended to increase efficiency in the workplace. It has a rather bland and generic-sounding name: the Hitachi Business

Border security is no game… or maybe it is

Engadget reports on South Korea’s deployment of Microsoft Kinect devices on the DMZ: According to Hankooki, the Korean military is currently using Kinect sensors to monitor movements at the border between North and South Korea. Thanks to software developed by

Searching for the sinister

In response to Liberals Rush to Condemn Sexual Assault Victim: Of course, they can’t just say a few random cranks said something unkind, because then there’s no collective purpose.  There has to be sinister intent to make these cultural conflicts

President Obama is feeling less 'transformative' these days

I thought President Obama’s pre-Super Bowl interview with Bill O’Reilly of Fox News was noteworthy because of how evasive and dismissive the President was.  He simply didn’t answer the questions O’Reilly posed.  He accused Fox News of essentially inventing the

Did I call this, or what?

Shot, from me on Friday afternoon: Skeptics of the GOP leadership wonder if they’re capable of thinking more than one move ahead.  Don’t they realize that giving up 25 percent of what the Left wants will swiftly lead to their denunciation

Losing Philip Seymour Hoffman

It’s just awful to learn that actor Philip Seymour Hoffman is dead at 46 from a heroin overdose.  He had so much to lose.  It’s scary to think such an successful and thoughtful actor, a person of such enormous accomplishments,