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From Paris, With Love: The French Are Concerned For Us
By James Grady - Politics DailyA revelation about French perspectives of the United States and our politics emerged last month in a Paris suburb as I sat on a movie theater stage with three other American authors. We four born in the U.S.A. panelists came to that upper-middle-class suburb of Vincennes – think Bethesda, Md., or Wash(ington) Park in Denver – for a three-day "Festival America" celebration of North American culture. While the festival featured authors and artists from Canada, Cuba, Haiti, and Mexico, its heartbeat came from this land of ours. Events glittered with stars including Pulitzer Prize ...
NASA, Obama and the Angry Red Voters
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Opinion: Dude, Where's My Flying Car?
By not in system - AOL News(Nov. 18) -- I turned 40 this year and, alas, like many before me who've entered middle age, I've fallen quite short of my long-term career goal. In my case, that was to become a space-suited technician in a dusty lunar city. AP Photo/Heinz Ducklau This year also happens to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, the first time a human being ever set foot on another world. This event was always in the background during my '70s-era childhood, that giant leap for mankind a mere first step toward .... what? Huge, circular space stations, gracefully pirouetting in low Earth ...
A 'Star Trek' for the Recession
By Judy Howard Ellis - Politics DailyGene Roddenberry's "Star Trek" television series foresaw much of today's technology. Before you held your cellphone, underwent non-invasive surgery, or used a GPS in your car, technologies like these were used on the series. But can the franchise have meaning during the Great Recession? One can only hope. I wrote in May about what newspapers can learn from "Star Trek" because insight often wades in the waters of creative drama. Well, I couldn't resist talking about the franchise again because CBS and Mad Science Group recently announced that in 2010 they will present "Star Trek Live" shows ...
Video: PUMAs, Birthers, Tea Parties Get Their Own Sci Fi Series - V!
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyScience fiction has a long tradition of embedding political messages into far-out scenarios. Most recently, The Sci Fi Channel's Battlestar Galactica remake held a mirror up to many of the Bush era's dilemmas.Now, it looks like ABC is putting out a remake that flips the script. See if you can catch the oh-so-subtle parallels in this trailer for V:Let me start off by saying that I will totally be watching this. Wild cylons couldn't keep me away. Phasers are set on "Teh Awesome!" You get the picture.The original V had cool effects (for the time), a mean streak of black humor, and a heavy hand ...
Right Wing Attacks President Obama for Star Trek Screening
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyMr. Sulu, ahead warp factor screed! Set phasers on rant!Leading conservative website Redstate has launched another photon torpedo at the President, accusing him of...wait for it...watching a movie! ...what does one think when one reads Politico's latest little report that reveals that President Barack Obama has called the Star Trek folks up asking for his own special, private screening of the franchise re-boot? Of course, it all makes one wonder how one of Star Trek's titular characters might view Obama's demands? One might imagine that the self-centered assumptions of privilege would not be ...
The New Star Trek: Set Phasers on Awesome!
By Tommy Christopher and Caleb Howe - Politics DailyThe new Star Trek movie came out today, an occasion which, for me, entails a pile of presents and a tree. Imagine my shock and outrage, then, when I saw this headline at The Daily Beast:Making 'Star Trek' CoolExcuse me, "Making?!?!" The clear implication is that Star Trek's default position is something other than "cool." All I can do is shake my fist in the air and scream, "Beast!!!"Still, I'm not going to let anything ruin "TrekDay" for me. In honor of the occasion, I present, once again, the exhaustive "Trek Politics" tribute that Caleb Howe and I did when the film's first trailer came out. ...
Meghan McCain Loves 'Jabba the Rush'
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyUpdate: Correction, from Allahpundit in our comments section:"I wrote the post. Ed added the update." My sincerest apologies.Captain Ed Morrissey points out that, according to her Twitter feed, Meghan McCain has found the comedic Holy Grail: (Tweet #1 and #2)To the people at current that created this, I am flattered beyond words. I can officially die a happy woman. Officially the funniest thing I have ever seen in my entire life (and I have seen my fair share). Thanks for correctly animating my bootylicious body :-) LOVE IT!!!Here's the video: I, too, found it to be pretty funny. I ...
Tommy Christopher vs. Caleb Howe on Ed Morrissey's Show - Live!
By Tommy Christopher and Caleb Howe - Politics DailyCaleb and I will be appearing on The Ed Morrissey Show at 3 pm, where I will engage two of the right's finest minds in mortal verbal kombat!! Mortal Kombat? Did you cold start this story with a controlled matter-antimatter implosion causing a time warp? Why not throw a Pac-Man joke at us? Way to show how "cool" you are with a Star Trek reference so arcane, even Gabriel Koerner would call you a dork.From Hot Air: In the second half, we cross the aisle and go back again with Tommy Christopher and Caleb Howe, the liberal-conservative tag team from AOL's Political Machine. We'll talk about whether ...
CPAC: The Star Trek Debate
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyAfter pulling an all-nighter, I belligerently challenged Ed Morrissey to a debate on the relative merits of Real Star Trek vs. the sacrileges that followed it. From Hot Air:Tommy notes with some justification that we seem to reverse political roles when it comes to Trek. All I can say is that we didn't see Tommy get this exercised during his three days of immersion in the conservative environment, so perhaps we're beginning to discover his inner Right-think.All I have to say to that is, "When Mugati fly, Ed, when Mugati fly!"We also discussed economic policy and racial stereotyping in science ...
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