Some good news, lest we forget what this whle civilization stuff is really all about: Today is the 37th anniversary of Mankind landing on the Moon, known on the Tranquility Calendar as Armstrong Day.
Some great sights to be had over at Google Moon. Other cool stuff here.
Here’s to all my fellow Lunatics out there! Next year, on the Moon!
Charles Pierce says what iIm too pissed to say about President kill Again breaking the shrinkwrap n his Veto Power in order to put the Evil Eye on Stem Cell Research:
I have watched slow death from neurological disease once too often in my life to be anything but furious when Sam Brownback, a United States senator to the everlasting embarrassment of that body, pulls out a child’s drawing of an embryo with a smiley-face in order to argue his position. Or when Tony Snow, that towering public fake, starts getting glib about “murder,” as though there isn’t enough blood lapping at the ankles of everyone in this White House to float a barge. Or when Snow’s boss, that tough-talkin’, crumb-spittin’, neck-rubbin’ international buckaroo, uses the first veto of his presidential career and then hides behind children while maundering incoherently about a “moral line” as though he’d recognize one if he fell over it. Is there any doubt that, if this guy got Parkinson’s Disease, he’d eat those little buggers out of the petri dish with a spoon, probably dribbling some of them on Tony Blair in the process?
That Bush would make this issue his first Veto in five years is so telling about this administration. Fuck the environment, Iraq, Afghanistan, or any real issue out there. Vetos are for chumps. Unless you can stop scientific progress and pander to the Am Taliban.
A few readers have written in to let me know that I’m too hard on the Faihful, that religious people aren’t kooks, or idiots, that they are fine, upstanding and moral folk with a deep rooted sense of tradition and values. I direct those people to this piece in Harpers, which says otherwise:
I too am soooo excited!! I get goose bumps, literally, when I watch what’s going on in the M.E.!! And Watcherboy, you were so right when saying it was quite a day yesterday, in the world news, and I add in local news here in the Boston area!! Tunnel ceiling collapsed on a car and killed a woman of faith, and we had the most terrifying storms I have ever seen here!! But, yes, oh happy day, like in your screen name , it is most indeed a time to be happy and excited, right there with ya!!
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I am excited beyond words that the struggle of this life may be over soon and I can finally be FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!
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This is so exciting….I’m having a hard time believing this is ‘real’!
True Believers are happy that a confluence of superstition and geopolitics has led to chaos, destruction and untold loss of life. Truely, these are the chosen people, the most holy and righteous.
