…Let me see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars.

I love this song and it always reminds me of Vonnegut’s “Sirens of Titan” and Delany’s “Trouble on Triton”. Both books involve beautiful descriptions of travel to planets/moons in our solar system as the respective authors imagined them. Bradbury’s “Martian Chronicles” is also wonderful.

If Elonia is so dedicated to space travel (doesn’t he want to colonize Mars? Or am I hallucinating?), let’s send HIM to Mars. He and his crew of “babies” have no business bashing into various US agencies and digging into government systems. I wish some giant would pick him up by the back of his pants and throw him somewhere. I can see his legs kicking. I am NOT dissing young people and their intelligence. Just that I believe Musk’s “kids” are playing on the wrong “team”. I don’t know enough about this to comment further.

Oh man, so let’s annex a new state. Which should it be? Greenland? Canada? Um, Gaza? I don’t think Greenlanders want to join our country even after a visit by DJT Jr. I *know* Canananda doesn’t want to. CANADA? CANADA? There are a few Canadians who support MAGA (gasp). I dunno anyone who does but I do know that most Canadians do NOT want to become a US state. Fer kee-reist, as my brother would have said.

And then there’s Gaza… Move the people to, uh, somewhere away from where they live? And turn their property (or whatever) into a resort area? I think Gaza once *was* a resort area before a lot of shitola happened… So, move the people who live there OUT? To where? Sadly, who wants them? And do the Gaza residents WANT to move? Yeah, there may be some who do. If somebody decided I needed to be moved out of The Landfill because a wanna-be dictator wanted my city, I would not want to go. I know I am talking about a modern house and not a war-torn tent but I think that if I were living in a war-torn tent in my hometown, I would not want to be coerced to move by some crackpot would-be despot. Like Trump.

Speaking of Greenland, the book Greenlanders, by Jane Smiley, is pretty darn good. I read it quiiiite a while ago and it may be time for a re-read.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 5th, 2025 at 7:37 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.