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Green Light I saw The Incredible Hulk today. As I never got around to writing anything here about Iron Man - which I also enjoyed - I didn't want to do the same again here, simply because I wasn't feeling a strong inspiration to write. I'll leave anything I'd seriously consider to be spoilers off this immediately visible part. If I've misjudged, I apologize. If you click for the rest, though, it's on you r head. As with Iron Man , they've generally tried to keep what works from the comics and move ahead reasonably from there. A bit more in the way of liberties were taken with the Hulk, though, as they recognized that for part of the audience a primary source of nostalgia for the character ties to some visual and sound elements from the TV series. Have no fear, though, this is a reasonably good shot (the best by far so far) at the Hulk from the comics. Fairly well-paced, probably the biggest flaws of the film lie in predictability. If there's anything i...
Nearly Over? Well, it's a hope. At last look (I've had it linked over on the right for the past few months) I see that Obama is 38 delegates short of the most recent "magic" nomination number of 2,118, while Clinton is 205 short of that milestone. It at least appears to finally be drawing to a close (I'll reprint the piece at the bottom of this entry), and at the moment the Associated Press is running one of those annoying Breaking News, disembodied headlines that so remind me of messageboard tactics of rushing to be the first one to post something. It's been up for at least 10 minutes now, though, with no citation, so who knows? The idea that she might only go so far as to state that he's reached the current magic number of delegates based on decisions made this past weekend concerning delegates from Florida and Michigan, and then in any way leave her campaign open... it'll be disastrous for the party. Hopefully the Montana and South Dakota races wil...