11:17 p.m. - 2007-03-19
Cosmic Masturbation

I got this in an email from spaceweather.com...

"Something on the far side of the sun exploded yesterday, hurling a bright coronal mass ejection over the sun's eastern limb. An active sunspot must be lurking just around the corner. It should appear in a few days when solar rotation carries that part of the sun into view."

Uh... what the hell is going on up there? Is the sun that desparate?? Is he turning his back on us and spankin' the ol' solar monkey? Who's gonna clean up the "ejection"? Geez!

And as for the "spot that is lurking" and will appear in a few days... well, there's something rather Lewinsky-blue-dress-Bill-Clinton-ish about that. I don't think I want to see it. Let's just give the sun some privacy and let him figure out what the meaning of "is" is. This incident has nothing to do with his official role as light-giver and president of the solar system. No cigars were involved. Sociologists say that nearly every guy whacks it anyway. So get off the sun's back. You're only gonna get burned.

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