Captain America movie: Terrific!!!!

I went to see "Captain America: The First Avenger" over the weekend. It was a FABULOUS movie... really, really good. The movie really captures the character of Steve Rogers / Captain America as he was best portrayed in the comics over the years. Steve Rogers is a profoundly honest, patriotic, duty-minded man and that is how he comes out in the movie. The movie is a great action movie, but also is a great WW2 period piece. The cast is terrific. Chris Evans does an amazing job as Steve Rogers, Hugo Weaving is a terrific villain, Hayley Atwell is beautiful and spunky as the leading lady. The supporting cast is also top notch, Tommy Lee Jones has a big role. The fellow who plays Howard Stark (Tony Stark / Ironman's father) is terrific. The soldiers who support Captain America are all great. Go see it!

Psst! New evidence against man-made global warming

Interesting recap here on some results from CERN that indicate that cosmic ray activity could influence the fraction of global cloud formation and thus have a climatic impact. The chief of the lab doesn't want any of his people to draw any inferences from their results though... Heaven forbid.

China developing Electromagnetic Pulse weapons

This article describes Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) weapons being developed by China for use against... hmmm, who would they use them against? The Mongolians... nooo. The Tibetans? No. Of course the primary enemy that they're developing them to use against is the U.S. We ignore this threat at the risk of our ultimate peril.