no more mrs nice bucket

did anyone else giggle at the irony in the fact that the VERY SAME day president obama was given the nobel peace prize, the US bombed the moon? the prize must only apply to earth...oh wait, we don't do that here either.

tens of people watched the spacecraft crash into the moon live online and were sorely disappointed that you couldn't see anything happen (there were predictions of a terrific plume of debris on impact). NASA's preemptive attack had an interesting reason - the search for frozen water under the moon surface. yet here comes that sick feeling i get when this country does something that i just know we are going to fuck up. when coca-cola opens a plant on the moon, you'll know what i mean. we will be told that the moon will welcome us as liberators, but we know better.

another notable thing in the news recently was the new information on ida, the fossil found in germany that was heavily and strategically marketed as the missing link in human evolution. i wrote about this before, trusting the history channel too much. turns out, ida doesn't have a place on our evolutionary tree; she wasn't a lemur-monkey. she was just another lame lemur.