There’s an article at Wired Science that details how the new Kepler telescope is sending data to NASA about planets in our galaxy which are outside our solar system. Such planets are numerous and according to NASA, planet Hat-p-7b has a light side and a dark one and its atmosphere contains titanium oxide–oh yeah, and it has a temperature variance of about 1,300 degrees Fahrenheit between its coldest and warmest points.
Well, ahem, the more I ponder the matter, I think the headlines should read: NASA Discovers “Original Planet of White Men”. Let’s review: global warming out of control; dark side; toxic atmosphere. I’d say that Senator Sessions would feel right at home there. Dick Cheney? Scooter?
That titanium oxide atmosphere assures there will be no hippie dippy flower smelling there. The climate? Reliable in its ruined exactness. Just the way the old white men like it.
There will be no troubling Latina wise women there.
Waves of silvery toxins on the planet’s dark side will assure that nothing needs to be said aloud.
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Meantime, back at the ranch…
Beatnik ghosts rattle the locks in the reformatories (which are now called state schools).
Jack Kerouac writes: Charlie Parker, forgive me–
Forgive me for not answering your eyes…
The unsayable names of America’s suffering classes are too hard to pronounce.
The president is going to pitch health care reform as a consumer protection plan.
How many syllables in that illusion?
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Whenever I think of the lobbyists in America I remember Jung’s assertion that neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
S.K.
Planet of the Blind 