• An editorial in the Aspen Times Weekly claims that angry white men will dominate the 2008 election. What the Aspen Times Weekly fails to realize is that angry white men don’t have anyone to vote for.
  • China will launch more than ten missions into space this year. This includes China’s first spacewalk. What does that mean fo the U.S.A.? It means that we’d better get our act together if we don’t want to see the moon claimed as a Chinese outpost. Of particular interest is that China will be launching a communications satellite for Venezuela (ahem, spy satellite). I guess China hopes that catering to an oil-rich country will prove beneficial to its economy in the long run. Perhaps the U.S. should shoot down the Venezuelan satellite rather than the one falling slowly to Earth.
  • In other China-related news, the Chinese government is showing it understands the principles of free speech. Slapping a film making ban on a production team, prohibiting certain types of media, and restricting internet Web sites is a great way to show fitness in the human rights arena to the rest of the world. The content may be offensive (Having not watched it and only having a glib report from Reuters, who can say?), but the ability of a government to “wish” a problem away with prohibition has been shown to fail time and again throughout history. I won’t even open the whole free speech can of worms. You can insert my typical, cantakerous rant here.
  • Fidel Castro resigns. I won’t link any news stories, because its all over the internet at this point, but what does that do for the United States? Nothing. We still have an embargo, we still have our awesome extra-territorial prison, and Cuba is still dirt poor. Cuba should have been a state. We won it fair and square (don’t remind me about yellow journalism) from the Spanish in 1898. It’s ours, precious.
  • Can I ask everyone a question? WHY IS OUR CONGRESS SPENDING TIME ON STEROID USE IN BASEBALL? This gets a huge WTF from me. Isn’t Congress supposed to, you know, run the country or something? Don’t they have important issues to decide? Who cares if Clemens used steroids or HGH? If there was a policy at the time prohibiting their use, make him ineligible to hold records or go into the Hall of Fame. If there was no rule against it at the time, then shut up about it already and let our Congress get back to work doing something useful. It completely chaps my arse that my tax dollars are being spent on such a colossal media circus that is so outside of the scope of responsibility of our legislative body. Enough already.