"it has come to our attention that a mysterious force is loose...somewhere in outer space."

"the mysteries of creation are there."

"up in the sky?" "up in the sky."

"the moon and the planets are there. and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there. and therefore as we set sail; we ask god's blessing on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure of which man has ever embarked."

-inspectah deck and john f kennedy, above the clouds-



you see the universe which consists of the sun moon and star. and them planets that exist in my space. i love john f kennedy. i was obsessed with him in my formative years. i read every book i could get on him. some combination of his dashing good looks and his family being dubbed the "camelot of america" intrigued me. natch on the dashing good looks part. i am shameful to admit that i have seen neither oliver stone's jfk nor thirteen days -- two movies about mr kennedy. i will have to go rent those and watch'em. the whole kennedy family story is a modern day shakespearean epic. john being assasinated, bobby getting assasinated, ted doing whatever the heck he did, john jr starting a fancy schmancy political magazine and then disappearing into the bermuda triangle. jackie marrying to acquire that "o." all shocking stuff. all the stuff of legend. i used to read the gripping account of jfk's pt 109 story (now a gi joe) and thought that here, here was a hero. plus he had an affair with marilyn monroe. c'mon now. is this guy not great?



john was the first "television" president. john was the first catholic president. one of john's legacies is the space program, the zenith of which was the possibly fake moon landing. john was also polled as one of the most overrated presidents but screw the pollsters, what do they know? isn't it weird how i'm referring to him as john? when in fact all his close friends really called him jack? yes, i know this stuff. i'm not messing around. i was also similarly obsessed with all things benjamin franklin but that's another story for another time.



so why this jfk talk now? because the scientists have possibly discovered a tenth planet. yes people, a tenth planet. this is huge. well, not as huge as discovering a real live loch ness monster but still huge. when i read talk of a new planet, i thought, "wow, space is cool." and then i thought, hum, the lyrics from gangstarr and ghostface killah have things about planets and stars in them, i'll have to include that. then i thought, oh, the beginning of "above the clouds" from gangstarr has a jfk snippet. and then i arrived at my fond memories of jfk. see how my mind works? step by step, all the time. yours probably functions that way too, if you bothered to try. anyway.



the discovery of a possible tenth planet proves yet again that we know nothing. as technology advances, our whole concept of the world, how it works, and our place in it will change accordingly. so those people who think they/we know it all and who think that things should be closed and shut, they are all wrong. all of the knowledge we take for granted now could someday be revealed as fallacy. centuries ago we thought the earth was flat. centuries ago the sun was thought to revolve around the earth. we must be open to reinterpretation of our facts, while using all possible skepticism in not accepting any one truth. on a side note, it's no coincidence that religion was the last to accept the idea of the sun as the center of our galaxy -- going so far as to threaten jailing an aged galileo and banning the books of copernicus. skepticism is a powerful ally in the search for truth. i didn't get that line from a fortune cookie, really.



and the people who were outraged over the possible demotion of pluto as a planet are wrong. it doesn't matter how many planets we "traditionally" have. if pluto is a planet, it's a planet, if not, then we have eight. big deal. we have to keep our heads up and let new information change old facts. don't let tradition dictate what you think you know. just know.



tradition can sometimes be hella wack. jfk blown away, what more do i have to say