The cat woke me at 4, I went for my walk at 5, I have done my last stint of poll greeting, and now there is nothing to do but wait the five+ hours until the first results come in. Once the outcome is clear, I will of course say that I saw it all coming, and offer some confident views about what it all means. That, as I understand it, is the fundamental task of the blogger.
Lord, I wish I could nap in the afternoon.
Well, as a distraction on this election day, there is a report by two astronomers from Harvard speculating that a strange celestial object that was observed flying through our solar system last year was perhaps a probe sent to our solar system by an alien civilization to report on the goings on on Earth.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.cnn.com/2018/11/06/health/oumuamua-alien-probe-harvard-intl/index.html
Remember the movie The Day The Earth Stood Still? Is it possible that Il Duce is an android invader, aka Gort, left here to destroy us because we present a threat to the universe? Perhaps journalists attending his press conferences should be repeating the following incantation:
"Klaatu barada nikto"
Real MS,
ReplyDeleteThe problem is that Il Duce is not an android invader, but human all too human and that he represents a way of seeing the world that all too many of our fellow humans share just as the original Il Duce did.
Forgive me if I doubt that you saw it all coming :). I have plenty of confidence in your ability to explain what it all means though. I think that is more important anyways.
ReplyDeletes. wallerstein,
ReplyDeleteYou mean repeating "Klaatu barada nikto" won't work? Maybe we should try it anyway, just in case, as an extra-terrestrial version of Pascal's wager.