Women, Video Games, and Space... Does Life Get Better?

Women wonder why guys go to strip clubs or pay for hookers, the simple answer is that either way we pay for it. When we pick up the tab... we expect something in return! So a few women don't like it when a guy pays because they understand this model, but even most feminists turn back into June Cleaver when it comes to picking up the check. A recent study shows that 2/3 of men want women to chip in because you are more expensive than a hooker on a ratio of money spent to services rendered. All the while women use their mind games so that while half of you offer to pay, many of you will get offended if we accept! So this leads us to wonder, "‘Is she just in this because I'm paying — or is she really interested in me?’”

Meanwhile the news media is finally starting to understand a concept that most kids have known for decades: Video Games are Good. It would seem that this was reported almost a year ago, and before that, two years ago in Japan. Of course for years there have been reports linking violent video games to violent children, but now we can link smart video games to smart children. But what if you play both?!? Ultra-smart children with quick thumbs that are prone to violence?

In Space News...

NASA realized today that in 2 1/2 years the United States will no longer be able to send astronauts or cargo to the $100 Billion space station without help from other countries. "For five years or more, the United States will be dependent on the technology of others to reach the station. To complicate things further, the only nation now capable of flying humans to the station is Russia, giving it a strong bargaining position to decide what it wants to charge for the flights at a time when U.S.-Russian relations are becoming increasingly testy."

NASA Administrator Michael Griffin says, "we will be largely dependent on the Russians, and that is terrible place for the United States to be. I'm worried, and many others are worried." Meanwhile, Sen. Bill Nelson said, "This is a very serious betrayal of American interests... This will be the first time since Sputnik when the United States will not have a significant space superiority. I remain dumbfounded that we've allowed this serious threat to our national security to develop."

The American people (aka "popular opinion") will not realize or understand this problem until about 2010, by which point there will be panic and pandering to politics leading to a change in NASA Administration and the call for a new plan for U.S. Space Policy. It is estimated that 50% of the population only care that we are loosing at something but not understand why it matters, 24% of the population will blame the president despite that there was a plan in place, 18% will blame George Lucas for producing Star Wars movies which failed to inspire Generation Y, and 3% will rationalize the problem due to constraints involving the war between the Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire.

Your Government in Action...

Dear Taxpayer... we here at the IRS are wasting you money. Thats right, the IRS just sent out notices to 130,000,000 people at a cost of $41.8 million, to let them know that their check is almost in the mail. Why not just buy a super bowl commercial? It would have been cheaper!