SHOCKER: Report: Democratic districts received nearly twice the amount of stimulus funds as GOP districts.

TOP 5 DVDs of the week.

THE HILL: Georgia lawmakers: Biden snubbed us.

BOYCOTT MINNESOTA?

WHAT’S WRONG WITH Christmas sweaters?

STEVE CROWDER: Sneak Peak: Detroit Decays Under Democrats’ Watch.

GOOD GRIEF: Olbermann: I’ll go to jail before I comply with health-insurance mandate.

ATTACK OF THE 50-FOOT HOWARD DEAN. I prefer Darryl Hannah, personally.

CARBON FOOTPRINT: Congress Travels More, Public Pays: Lawmakers Ramp Up Taxpayer-Financed Journeys.

Another place where actions don’t match rhetoric.

RAND SIMBERG: Big news on the commercial space front. XCOR has closed a deal with the Koreans to fund Lynx.

PJTV: Violence In The Streets At Copenhagen Conference.

UPDATE: Some of this video is from Reuters, shot with fancy pro cameras. The rest was shot by Roger Simon using a Kodak Zi8 pocket video camera that’s under 200 bucks. As Roger notes by email, you can’t tell the difference.

OBVIOUSLY, THEY NEED RE-EDUCATION: Women avoid computer science because they’re prejudiced against geeks.

FEAR OF being labeled.

NETBOOK COMPUTERS under 300 dollars.

SOME Polywell Fusion news.

KENNETH ANDERSON: The Climate Change Fund as the New Millennium Development Goals?

MORE ON THAT BOEING 787 DREAMLINER first flight.

RECORDING Jeep Techno.

FIRST TIGER WOODS, now Fred Flintstone.

EDITORS’ PICKS: Recommended kitchen gifts.

INSTAVISION: I talk with Cato’s Dan Mitchell about economic illiteracy, the stimulus flop, and . . . pirates. Plus exclusive footage from my undercover investigation.

POPULAR SCIENCE gives a lukewarm (at best) review to Avatar and asks: “It’s an intriguing paradox–the success of a film as technologically elaborate and ambitious as James Cameron’s Avatar will come down to a simple question: Will audiences marvel at the movie’s groundbreaking production methods enough to forgive Cameron’s curious choice to frame everything on a script that is, almost above all else, obsessed with the evils of technology in the wrong hands?”

Cameron doesn’t think of himself as “wrong hands.” To me, though, the stills I’ve seen look ugly, populated by what appear to be Terminator Smurfs, as stiff and unrealistic as a kid’s diorama. Less tech, more aesthetics might have been smart. Er, and better writers, apparently.

BYRON YORK: Why Are Republicans In Copenhagen? “The House members are in Copenhagen after Pelosi rushed four major pieces of legislation to votes yesterday so the delegation’s plane could leave late last night. Most of the legislation, including a new stimulus bill, had only been introduced the night before, giving lawmakers just a few hours to consider them before being forced to vote.” The country’s in the very best of hands.

LEAKED LAW EXAM PROVIDES a teachable moment.

PROGRESS ON low-power radio.