Have you ever wondered how we justify it? I don't mean to dampen the holiday spirit or anything but I have been thinking quite a lot lately and some of it hasn't been good.

Think about this... we spend (in the generic "west" ) billions of dollars every year going into outer space. OK, we don't go into space as such but we send stuff there and a few people as well. Now it costs as little as 5 dollars to repair a childs eyes from preventable diseases. So if we spent just one years' space travel-allowance on eye disease in developing countries... we could actually erradicate preventable childhood blindess!

Now consider this... how many of us will actually see any tangible results from space travel? Considering that none of us get any actual benefit from space travel and few of us will ever actually participate in it... what fucking good is it really?! On the other hand, in a beautiful twist of irony, what if the man/woman who one day invents a method of travelling between planets and even dimensions, cheaply and quickly is one of those little blind kiddies. He/she never learned to read or write, go to university or study quantum physics 101 and never invented anything because he/she went blind from cataracts in 2001 at the age of four.

We could have done it ladies and gentlemen... we could have saved the human race (who, incidentally all perished in the great meteor hit of 2022) but for the fact that we spent 5 lousy dollars on a fuel crossover switch for the fucking space shuttle instead of investing it in the future of our race! Oh woe is us, our pitiful cries in the dark void of cold space. We who couldn't prioritise our finances, woe I say woe!

I say we all should be a little more interested in how our gumbyments spend our cashola. I never voted to send a bunch of spiders into space or to study the effects of microgravity on fungi. How come my money went to space? HUH? How come? Do they know something we don't? What the hell is soooo all important about space anyway? What is up there that is of any real meaning to us down here? Maybe more than we are being told? Maybe something we should be afraid of? Maybe my doctor is right and I really am paranoid?

Mebe.

And mebe not.

Mebe we'll never know.

Mebe some of us already do and aren't telling.

Mebe I'm talking shite now.

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Mebe not.

In other gnus, I have decided I want a girlfriend; Nothing too serious just some fun and maybe some good times.

Applicants must be alive, female and roughly humanoid. Good posture will be considered an advantage although not a requirement for the position. Please send a short resume and covering note to this address listing any relevant details of past relationships and any refferences you may be able to supply.

Remmuneration for this position will be commensurate with skills and will include normal use of the passenger side seat in my Mercedes sports coupe and some use of the drivers  and rear seats. Also the successful applicant ( or replicant - we are an equal opportunity employer ) will enjoy the benefits of a refined lifestyle including fine dining and entertainments such visits to art galleria and musea as well as some travel.

Applicants should also include a full body nude photo and be prepared to undergo some training and a probationary trial period.

Thank you, that is all. - now Sarah get off my back! -