To stupidity and beyond!!!

(Note that I have no intention of turning this site into a continuing political screed; however, two really juicy bits in one day was too much to pass up.)

All day, I've been trying to figure out what to say about the rumored announcement Mr. Bush is supposed to make this week about a moon base and a human mars mission.

Fortunately, Robert L. Park relieved me of that task by nailing all of my issues in one lovely paragraph of today's What's New mailing:

3. MARS: "LIKE COLUMBUS, WE DREAM OF SHORES WE'VE NOT YET SEEN."

Those stirring words were spoken by President George H. Bush on the steps of the Air and Space Museum on July 24, 1989, the 20th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. He called for a return to the Moon, and on to Mars. President George W. Bush, who seems driven to complete his father's unfinished work, is expected to issue a similar call next Wednesday. It's a curiously old-fashioned dream. Progress of society is measured by the extent to which work that is menial or dangerous is performed by machines. The scientists that command telerobots like Spirit, having become virtual astronauts, are the explorers of today.