"George WashingtonBen FranklynSir Richard BransonRick StevesMichael PhelpsMontel WIlliamsSteven KingArnold SchwarzeneggerSteve JobsCarl Sagan (maybe you've heard of him, the father of science fiction,and ideas of space exploration)Stephen" This list was REALLY amazing. I never knew the father of our country was pothead. Or that Ben Franklin, "early to bed, early to rise" indulged. However, you really went off the deep end when you referred to Carl Sagan as "the father of science fiction." There have been several purported fathers (and mothers) including Mary Shelley, Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Hugo Gernsback, Robert Heinlein, etc. Carl Sagan was an SF dilettante. As far as I know, he never wrote anything except "Contact".

There is a reason the GOP has the nickname "The Stupid Party" Sigh. What can you do? The idiots in NC voted him in.

MN, they were talking about how great hydrogen fuel was back when I was student back in the '70s. I really, really doubt that it is technologically possible to solve the problem, ie, make it cheaper to make than oil-based fuels. If it were, they almost certainly would have solved it by now. But I would LOVE to be proved wrong.

"How much of that oil money found its way into foreign bank accounts of Mr. Chavez?" According to some reports, some 2 Billion dollars.

I heard Limbaugh claim this as well. I don't doubt it, but do you have any reference on the web to this?

I have heard this from a number of sources. How is this possible? Isn't that against the very law that the senate has taken an oath to defend?

Yes. but being a leftist sucks even more.

um... The writer specifically mentioned majors that require math/calculus as still having value. Good grief. Learn to read AND comprehend, willya?

If you think the Rosenberg's stealing of the atomic bomb was an "impotent threat", you have no business commenting about this subject at all.

Who gives a damn about who's "cooler"? Children, that's who. The problem is that we have too many children voting on issues that need adult thinking.