So, anyway, I was catching up on my teevee watching, and caught Bill Maher from Friday night. One of his guests was creepy little twerp Markos Moulitsas. The part that pissed me off (and made me decide that Kos is a creepy little twerp) was after Maher opined that Timmy Potatohead asking Dennis Kucinich about the UFO thing was really stupid, asinine, and a typical traditional media question, and not worthy of placing emphasis on. It was kind of canceled out by crowd noise, but Mister Democrat Moulitsas fairly creamed his jeans in exclaiming, “he sees UFOs!”

Well, ‘scuse me, Marky, but Dennis hasn’t claimed to see UFOs every other Tuesday or anything. Nor has he claimed to be a victim of multiple (or even a single) abductions. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. No, Dennis saw something in the sky (aka, flying) that he couldn’t identify. Maybe Markos has never seen anything out of the unusual that he couldn’t identify. Or maybe his regimented little mind can’t quite process anything that doesn’t fit into nice neat little boxes made of ticky-tacky. I dunno.

I know that I, personally, have seen something in the sky that didn’t move like an airplane, and that I couldn’t identify. An alien space ship? A secret military craft? An airplane or helicopter at an odd angle that made it seem to hover in one place before shooting off rapidy and disappearing? Beats me. I couldn’t “identify” what it was (hence the “U” in the UFO).

But my mind is open enough to allow for the fact that there are more things out there in the universe than we self-important humans can possibly ever comprehend in a thousand – a million – generations. Every “truth” we hold to be self-evident only lasts until a new truth emerges, and we find out just how far off we were. Anybody who doesn’t get that has a tiny little Bill O’Reilly kinda mind.

What I do know is that the Hubble Deep Field Telescope looked at four one-hundredths of a degree of the sky, and found at least 3,000 galaxies, each one of which holds billions of stars, around which orbit billions of planets.

As Carl Sagan once said, if we’re alone in the universe, it would be a terrible waste of space.

A lot like Markos Moulitsas.

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