UnSpace

I wonder if I've been wrong.  I've been taking a stand against the ignorant who can't think their way out of a paper bag and claim there's no such thing as global warming. Why should I stand up to them? What's in it for me?

There are plenty of advantages to supporting global warming. Here are just a few, off the top of my head:

• Power. If humanity is going to destroy itself, why not help? How many people in the history of mankind can say "I helped bring about the end of mankind"?
• Convenience. What's more important, my comfort or the life of people I've never met and probably wouldn't like if did meet them?
• Greed. Pain and suffering always provide business opportunities. Just call me Daddy Globalwarmingbucks.
• Consistency. No one will call me a hypocrite for leaving a light on by mistake.
• Entertainment. Disasters are fun. I can watch the end of civilization on the news, after the extended Steelers coverage.
• I told you so. I've had great fun being snarky about cigarettes and acid rain, and this one's far bigger.
• No kids. Why should I care what happens in 2060?
• Space travel. If we screw this planet up bad enough, maybe we'll be forced to move out into the universe. Star Trek, here we come. Ok, so maybe it will be more like Battlestar Galactica….

I'm kidding, of course.

You hope.

As payback for talking to the press about the deplorable conditions at Walter Reed Army Hospital, the veterans being treeted there are being subjected to 7 a.m. inspections and are ordered to not talk to the press. I was willing to argue for the intelligence of the Bugblatter Beast of Traal, but I can't come up with anything remotely believable to excuse the person who issued those orders.

Don't think that the top officials didn't know: underlings warned and begged them to do something about the condition our Iraqi veterans were being subjected to, but even the Army Surgeon General did nothing.

Not only is our government willing to torture captured terrorists, but apparently they're quite happy torturing our own soldiers, not to get information to save lives, but to avoid having to do their jobs and to save money.

The only word I can think of to describe the abuse of these American soldiers is "treason." How is treason in the line of duty treated during wartime?

According to MSNBC's Scoop, John Travolta says Scientology could have helped Anna Nicole Smith:

The “Pulp Fiction” star says that if the late pin-up could have been saved if she had undergone treatment of Narconon, a controversial drug and detox treatment inspired by the writings of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.  Smith and Travolta appeared together in the movie “Be Cool.”

I'm sure the family of Lisa McPherson would disagree. L. Ron Hubbard was a hack science fiction writer, excellent fantasy writer (for which even the religion he created won't give him credit), but had no medical training. L. Ron Hubbard's death is strangely reminiscent of Anna Nicole Smith's.

This is not to say the medical profession may have done it's best to help her. The possibility that Smith may have been suffering from lupus (a condition that might have been greatly aggrevated by her recent pregnancy) has been raised.

To explain to the news media and public what lupus is and what it's effects are, the Lupus Foundation has made a Lupus Fact Sheet available.