Nothing New Under the Sun

There is nothing new under the Sun, or so it is written in Ecclesiastes, IIRC, I’m not much  of a scripture reader but that’s one of the more common quotes and I am certainly not above quoting the Bible when it happens to conveniently agree with my point of view.

Our place.  Tonight.  Bunga-Bunga!

Our place. Tonight. Bunga-Bunga!

There is nothing truly new in the world of politics, there are always a few politicians sending horrible racist and sexist tweets and e-mails; there are always Teabaggers ranting about abortion, or how horrible health  insurance is; there are always celebrities doing crazy celebrity stuff like drugs, and being naked, and giving their kids stupid names; there is always bad weather going on somewhere.

That is why we must look to where the sun doesn’t shine.  No, that is not the set-up for a scatological joke, or a 7th planet pun.  I’m being serious. 

If you look to the future, there is nothing but new stuff under the sun.  Some of it might be really bad stuff, like the total environmental destruction of our planet, rendering it uninhabitable and dooming the human race to an untimely extinction.  Some of it might be cool.

If you look deep into the past, where the sun no longer shines, we are finding out new stuff all the time.  Like, a new study shows that early Homo Sapiens were boinking both Neanderthals and a hominid species called Denisovans, who I’d never heard of before but from the sound of their name I suspect they were rather well dressed and urbane, at least as far as club wielding savages go.  Maybe there were other species, too, in this global bazaar of boinking.

50,000 B.C. was a freaky time, back before all the taboos and religions and stuff.

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