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I may as well admit that I don’t intend to finish the series of blog posts based on pictures I drew during our vacation to England and furthermore that I never really intended to finish it. I consider the whole endeavor to have wasted at least two hours of the precious time and blog space that I could have devoted to political commentary, which is what I should have been doing with this blog all along.
I may occasionally include a graphic pertinent to the commentary, with a humorous caption if one occurs to me. And since I’m more likely to come up with an idea for a caption than I am to draw a whole picture, I’m thinking there might be more captions than pictures.
This post has wasted at least two hours of the precious time and blog space that I could have devoted to political commentary, which I had planned to be doing with this post all along. So with whatever’s left of my time for this post, I’d like to do the commentary. So here’s the political commentary; about healthcare! That’s right, I’m taking on the big hairy bears. That would make a fabulous picture; myself as a tiny bunny, holding aloft a pen like a knight holds a sword, and I’m facing a huge bear with dripping fangs, and the words “Healthcare Crisis” are written on the bear’s teeth, or somewhere, it doesn’t matter, and the caption would be “I’ll face any beast with my pen in hand!”
I will work on that idea and hopefully improve the caption before I draw anything.
Truth: I don’t actually know what to do about healthcare. I am hoping they’ll be able to put my brain in a robot body someday, similar to the scenario in “The Jameson Satellite”, a short story included by Isaac Asimov in his anthology “Before the Golden Age” (not sure about the title). I won’t expect the reader to go read that anytime soon, unless they’re older than me (maybe 30% of the US population, even less of the world in general), and happen to be an atheist (much less of the population) they probably wouldn’t like the idea very much and it’s one of those stories that’s all ideas. So I’ll just summarize the central idea of the story, that space robots put a dead scientist’s brain in a space robot body so he’s a space robot too, and he travels around the universe with them. Arthur C Clarke later took the idea a few fantastic steps further in 2001 (THE BOOK) where the astronaut gets captured by entities of pure thought who turn him into a godlike being of pure thought himself (right on!) and he can travel around the universe without refueling and do whatever he wants. 2001 is a fantastic revision of “The Jameson Satellite” really, and then David Bowie expanded the idea in 1972 with what I consider his supreme number, “Starman”, about a godlike being of pure thought that can compose, play, and broadcast awesome electro pop to Earth radios. Great Song! Come blow our minds Starman! Deliver us from our Healthcare woes!
That’s enough preaching for now I reckon.
