I like to think of myself as very pessimistic, but after seeing this documentary, I feel like I’ve previously been optimistic.

Speaking of which, in Eisenhower’s speech there is this line:

We now stand ten years past the midpoint of a century that has witnessed four major wars among great nations. Three of these involved our own country.

Okay. WWI, WWII and Korea. But what’s the fourth war he’s talking about? I can’t figure it out!

I think its impossible to watch Top Gun and not fall in love with the movie’s star …

… too bad that star just got forcefully retired.

What a clever avoidance! “Frak”, a word often used on “Battlestar Galactica” as an alternative to “fuck” (FRAK you FCC!), is making the jump to other television shows:

“Battlestar Galactica” was the best show of 2005 and it may yet turn out to be the best of 2006. In the third-season opener of “Veronica Mars,” the title character meets a “Galactica” fan who explains to her what “frak” means, and Veronica now uses “frak” whenever she means “fuck.” That’s pretty cool.

HT: AICN.