Nothing much over the transom this morning. Thanksgiving, has there ever been a more useless holiday? It's kind of like getting that big round orange in your Christmas stocking. Oranges, who cares, you can get one out of the fridge whenever you want, why is it taking up valuable space in your stocking? As a kid I supposed fresh citrus foot was a rare treat in the winter for my folks in the olden days, but in these modern times of television who cares? Same with Thanksgiving, maybe in The Depression, that we heard about all the time, all the time, a full belly was hard to come by, but in these modern days of refrigerators and super markets we could do it anytime.
And it's right near Christmas which is so much bigger so it's not like it's filling any vacuum. And that whole dinner with the table full of crockery and whatnot and passing it around crash bang, who needs it? Not me. I am happier eating a chili dog with cheese fries in some dump with a newspaper to read.
Mostly the Science channel shows crap, but maybe once every other week they have something cool, usually about those space probes. I love the space probes, how much better a way to spend money than having some galumph trodding dead dust and trying to think of something soaring to say. Last week they did two hours on the moons of Saturn. How exotic, seas of methane, underground oceans, gravity waves tearing at cores and sending spumes of water vapor into skies crossed by Saturn's rings. That's the real stuff man.
And you'd think that the planets would be boring, one colder than the next, some bigger than others, basically made of the same stuff because what else is there? But not that way at all, and in the mix, lots of water and lots of organic chemicals. And we used to think that planets were pretty rare, but now we know that almost every star usually has a few, so there has to be plenty of life out there. Probably most of it is is just bacteria like occupied Earth for so long before well getting its act together and crawling out of the ocean and going from that stooped over guy to the guy in the business suit with the briefcase and the snappy fedora, and why haven't we met any of those fedora types from other planets?
Original sin of course. The first was when the first protozoa became an animal by eating a plant, and the second would be when the first animal ate another animal, and the third would be when our dull but affable forefather decided he wanted to have a gargantuan brain so he decided to kill animals to fuel that desire. The fourth would be when the first man killed another man. Strangely enough this corresponds with Cain and Abel. And that's how we were driven to the land of Nod, which was probably not as nice as it sounds.
Strangely enough Abel was probably a bigger sinner than Cain because he invented agriculture which led to property which led to gummint, and to technology and well progress, which I contend leads to wars and environmental damage and unsustainability, and that's why the bug-eyed guy in the fedora from the other planet has not dropped by to shake our hands.
Well a lot of holes in all this. I'll try to fill in it tomorrow.
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