sad

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/14/AR2008021401992.html?wpisrc=newsletter

You may not know of my love for the sea, but in my mind there is nothing more romantic and awe-inspiring than the ocean. So this story upsets me on a more emotional level than a political one.

Also, I think this says something about our priorities. For example, take government support of NASA. We should be interested in scientific inquiry, no doubt, and space is going to become more and more important to us in the future. However, if NASA were really about the advancement of knowledge, it wouldn't have as much money. But there is the capability of weapons development there, so we make excuses about human progress, but really we just want to blow shit up. If we were that interested in knowledge and furthering understanding, the ocean would get as much attention as NASA. It has endless energy, if we can figure out how to responsibly harvest it, and in the ocean are the answers to the history of the world. Answers about who we are and where we came from are underwater. Unfortunately, big guns are not. And so, we leave the hometown mystery alone in favor of moving outward.

The legislature is fighting w/ the White House about wire-tapping right now, but what else is new. ONly thing noteworthy about that is considering the Meirs, et al. events, it looks as if they might actually be growing a pair now that it seems there might be a viable Democratic candidate.