The Mexican government releases film captured by a Mexican Air Force pilot of flying objects they cannot identify that “tracked” the military jets.  This is the first release of military photographic evidence of such objects by a government, if I understand the news reports.

These are real objects.  These objects are flying.  These flying objects are unidentified.  Because they are unidentified, they cannot be confirmed to be extra-terrestrial.  Their source is unknown. 

The British government has released information about unexplained objects near one of their military bases and recently the French government opened their “UFO” files.  The Russian government acknowledged that film taken by private citizens and thousands of Russians of flying objects over St. Petersburg (I think, it may have been a different city, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t Moscow) could not be identified or explained.

The “space alien” explanation violates most everything we know about physics, starting with the requirement of faster than light travel. 

Simple probability convinces me that there is other life in the universe.  I remain skeptical of intelligent, tool-using life elsewhere in the universe, although I don’t think it’s anything like excludable without question.  I think the likelihood of contact between us and intelligent, tool-using life from elsewhere in the universe is very small, although I am unable to discount that possibility to (near) zero. Please go HERE for a discussion of the sheer probabilities of Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (the “Fermi Paradox”).

Similarly, most of the so-called evidence of alien contact is mere poppycock if not an outright hoax.  Nevertheless, there are some things that are incapable of being dismissed cavalierly.  I do not believe this film is conclusive.  I do think this film is thought provoking. 

Finally, I think almost everything any government of the world is doing about anything whatsoever should be transparent to the governed.  Thus, I would urge the United States government to release what it knows and any evidence it holds.  There is no topic whatsoever that I believe should be “off the table” when it comes to scientific examination and widespread comment.  Yes, for me this includes discussions of ghosts, fairies, leprechans, the Loch Ness Monster, the soul, life after death and “near death” experiences, … when I say “everything”, I mean everything.  It is better to know a horrible truth than to live in ignorance.

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I have a bit of a personal family problem happening from now at least through the weekend, so if you don’t see me or if I don’t blog or answer your emails or respond to phone calls, it’s not because I’ve lost my mind, run away or don’t like you.  I’ll be back soon, but I’ve got to be the oldest family male knight in shining armor grownup for a short time before I return to being the idiot child goofball you all know and love.

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I was watching the 5:30 p.m. news the other day looking for a particular report and a commercial came on for Kellog’s Yogurt Bites cereal, which supposedly helps one “keep regular”.

This guy holding the product comes on screen at a construction site dressed in hard hat, tee under plaid shirt, jeans, workbelt and steeltoe boots.  In the background, workmen pull a 12-foot steel beam through a slot in a concrete wall — deafening Ka-Bam!.  He walks outside, talking about the relief he got in only 10 days and a pickup truck unloads some rolling steel drums.– Rrrrrollllll, bam!bam!bam!  He walks to the end of the construction site and a bigger truck dumps a load of bricks — slam!.

I was screaming with laughter!

Then, there was a commercial where these good old guys are sitting around an empty bar, rehearsing their band — standup piano, two guitars, drums — and they are singing new words to a familiar Elvis tune that quickly goes to the chorus — Viva Viagra!

Now I know why people have televisions.  Hilarious.

After that, there’s a commercial about a Hollywood model maker who needs medicine for an enlarged prostate. 

And, I noticed that all the guys in all three of these commercials have scruffy 4 day growths of beards. 

Ya think formerly “manly men” of a certain age are a target market for national television news ad men?

I turned off the television without seeing the part I was looking for on the ABC News.

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News from the world of the “smalls”:

Little man TV star has a tiny bit too much to drink.

It’s a big world for little people.

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My personal email address is apparently being used by someone else.  This is called a “joe job”, my Ultimate webmaster tells me.  You can read more about a “joe job” on Wikipedia here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joejob
If this inconveniences anyone, I’m sorry, but there’s not much I can do about it.

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Naomi Wolf writes in New York magazine about how internet porn seems to take much of the best out of sex for both genders.  Thought provoking.

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