Yo, I told you twice already, I won't tell you again

The mighty Stephen Hawking is fuckin' insane,
So if you see me coming bitch you better duck,
'cause Stephen Hawking is crazy as fuck.

Oddly, I post this, then openly wonder when, precisely, I'm meant to have threatened people. Keep telling white folk that I have less faith in my telepathic abilities than they (foolishly) have in theirs, and they keep expecting me to read their minds. . .

Meanwhile, back in the Real World, Dominick's to close 12 stores in March:

Dominick's will close 12 poorly performing stores, the grocer announced Monday, two months after it failed to find a buyer for the troubled supermarket chain.

Eight suburban and four Chicago stores--with 290 full-time and 500 part-time employees--are scheduled to close March 13, the company said.

This plus the Fannie May factory (and at the mo', all their locations) closing, and Bush and company still insist the economy is turning around. Yeah, if you're working on tech to send somebody to Mars, or some other place Holst wrote a piece about.

I feel folks on the whole "humanity spreading forth from the womb" shit -- I've read Octavia Butler's Parables trilogy, or twology, or whatever you want to call it -- but also gotta agree with Bruce Sterling:

I'll believe in people settling Mars at about the same time I see people setting the Gobi Desert. The Gobi Desert is about a thousand times as hospitable as Mars and five hundred times cheaper and easier to reach. Nobody ever writes "Gobi Desert Opera" because, well, it's just kind of plonkingly obvious that there's no good reason to go there and live. It's ugly, it's inhospitable and there's no way to make it pay. Mars is just the same, really. We just romanticize it because it's so hard to reach.

But hey, they want to spend a trillion or so bucks of their money doing it, it's a free coun-- wait, they are talking about using their money to do this, right? Rich old white fucks that they are?