On 20 July 1969 mankind penetrated the maidenhead of outer space and came on the moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin fertilised the surface of the moon while Armstrong moaned “That’s one small step for a man. And when I say small step I’m of course referring to my diminutive penis”. And like all men, they left a big mess.
Or did they?
We all saw Capricorn One where Sam Waterston and Barbra Streisand’s husband tried to convince everybody that Elvis is dead.
Or did we?
Americans often claim they invented democracy and freedom. This is false. France or Greece invented democracy and African and Pacific Island countries where women could walk around bare chested invented freedom. But one thing history and the truth can never take away from America is that they put a man on the moon. They are the first, and so far only, country to ever accomplish something that is really pretty impressive when you consider the primitive technology of the day. I think this is their greatest achievement.
Ironically, Neil Armstrong’s original line was supposed to be “Here I come to save the day”.
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Man on the Moon. Sweet film. Amazing how wrestling has emerged lately. We call wrestling "catch" in french.
On Ann Coulter...
If one holds perverse opinions and if I hear of them, or actually hear them, it matters little if that person is an entertainer, a painter of scenes in Vienna, or a politician. I find certain views abhorent. There are reasons I think to always consider every opinion a valid perspective that must ultimately be judged against the very stuff of existence......
There may be a philosphical basis to this perspective....
"In the various religious conflicts, such as the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), which have convulsed Europe, the point has been to hold exactly the right opinions; even a slight difference of opinion between, say, a Catholic and a Protestant is enough to bring a sentence of death on the one who is judged to be mistaken and, after death, an eternal sentence of punishment in Hell. In Christian or Islamic wars about dogma, it is true that nothing, literally nothing at all, is more important than the correctness of the opinions one holds - and this even though the opinions in question deal with matters that are obviously unknowable. Granted the intense weight that is placed on opinions, skeptical claims are regarded as foolish or parodic because it is assumed that they are clearly untrue and therefore to hold them could only be a deliberate perversity meant for the sake of being outrageous for the amusement of others. Even in today's supposedly secularized Western society, students recieve with derision, as if they were jokes, the three propositions of the skeptical Greek philosopher Gorgias: (1) that nothing exists, (2) that if anything does exist, it can never be known, and (3) that if, perchance, something exists and can be known, it can never be communicated to anyone else. Yet in the Greek tradition and in several other great philosophical traditions, this attitude is no joke, but has serious underlying purposes."
My point about people like Ann Coulter is that if we give them an audience they'll continue to belch hatred. The second people stop listening she'll stop talking.
Russia could have been first on the moon. There were simply better things to do.
We went to the moon and left trash there too.
Ann Coulter's an asshole.
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