If you believe they put a man on the moon

I always thought it was more of an urban myth than anything else that some people actually don't believe that we've gone to the moon, but after a recent dinner party conversation gone awry, I now know differently. So far, it's only been females that I've encountered who hold this belief. The reasons for their skepticism is as varied as they are crazy and far too tedious for this junior detective to recite, so I won't.

What is the why for this harebrained notion? I don't know, has a whole generation of our young women somehow been lead astray? Did they all go to different schools? Have the Bush years so warped their faith in the honesty of government that now every big thing is suspect?

Who knows?

But hell, maybe they're right. Who am I to judge? I've bet on Auburn the last two weeks and lost mightily and I'm pretty damn sure I'll bet em' again this weekend.

Anyway, my mind was set to pondering all this after reading a story about Google's moon trip contest.

These Days

REM's new album is set to be released and having listened to many of the new tracks by virtue of my close professional relationship with the band, I can tell you that they are hella strong. And for all those ditsy fans, long suffering, like sick dogs for some of their former magic you will be howling with nothing less than pure pleasure when the new record finally drops. So until then people just content yourselves with a little bit of this