Did Hillary Clinton’s attack ad deliberately darken Barack Obama’s skin?

A Clinton ad appears to show Obama with darker-than-normal skin tone. The proverbial speculation on the proverbial internets that Hillary’s proverbial campaign proverbially did this on purpose is proverbially rampant.  You know, to make him look more sinister and stuff.  Or something. AHA!  RACISM!  I don’t know.  I think it’s a subtle difference at best.  … Read more

The ugly aftershocks of Pluto’s demotion

I tell you what: you get these astro-types wound up, and they get one hell of a power trip going. As you know, the International Astronomical Union demoted Pluto in 2006, reclassifying it as a dwarf planet and instantly obsoleting hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of science fair projects worldwide. So now National Geographic … Read more

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