Some rental kayaks at Ft. DeSoto State Park, Florida.
1. The “Chief Astronomer” of the Vatican has announced that it is okay for the pious to think there may be life on other worlds. This is so completely strange I don’t know where to start. This is the same Catholic Church which persecuted Galileo, and only hundreds of years later allowed as how the Earth maybe does orbit around the sun, and maybe Galileo wasn’t such a “heretic” after all. Now, they think they are scientists! Chief Astrologer, more like it. This Catholic Church persists in the conceit that its adherents only think what they are told is okay to think! I can just imagine some pious Catholic who has been wrestling with his/her conscience, tossing and turning at night, unable to take communion in good faith because of entertaining the thought of alien life. Maybe pouring the heart out at Confession. What a relief! Back in the good graces of the Pope.
2. Apparently it has become politically okay to acknowledge that Vitamin D is important, and that the best way to get it is, mirable dictu, from the sun! (See my previous blog rant about this subject). This vitamin, in addition to its other virtues, may be of service in preventing breast cancer. How’s that for “awareness?” The risk of getting deadly malignant melanoma from the sun is, still, complete speculation. No science to support it. In fact, of all the dangerous cancers to worry about, malignant melanoma is way down the list. There is no evidence I’ve been able to find that the sun will kill you! It is now recommended that us humans get regular sun exposure without sunscreen. WTF are the sun-grease manufacturers going to do to counter this! Oh, apparently only a minimal amount of the Vitamin D in one’s body gets there via diet or supplements.
3. The worlds’ wildlife is croaking at an alarming rate, and it is our fault. Biodiversity is on the wane. Maybe better get in that Escalade and drive out to some wild place to observe some creature, maybe a squirrel or something, in its natural habitat before it is too late. Don’t worry. Be Happy.
4. Prez. Bush compares his ridiculous, inhuman, nitwit financially-ruinous war in Iraq to WWII. How does this guy find his way from the Presidential Bedroom to the Oval Office every day? I’d like to hear what Tom Brokaw (The Greatest Generation) has to say about this. Whoops! Almost forgot, modern journalists don’t say anything about anything, might lose “access.” Hey, when things go south, Mr. or Ms. Politician, invoke one of them magic words. “Communist” is out, but how about “appeasement?” Let’s not have dialogue with those we despise, let’s shed the blood of a few hundred thousand of them, thousands of our own, and go into horrendous debt instead.
5. Some of you may see a guy named “Zeno” commenting on my blog. He’s my nephew.
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