This is SO AWESOME!  I really hope this beautiful nanotech approach works, because it would save so many people from the ravages of chemotherapy.  I love the whole light therapy aspect of this new technology.

HEH! Lucinda and I were talking about how fundamentalists of every stripe are destroying America. Everyone knows about the Zionists, the Islamic Extremists and the Fundamentalists Christians because they are in the news most often. New Atheists are especially annoying to me since I am a basic I-don't-buy-the-concept-of-god(es)(s)-but-everything-else-is-debatable "soft" atheist. It offends me to think that other atheists might find me not atheist enough, just as Pat Robertson doesn't think that anyone except for his fans are Christian enough. I don't believe in Santa Claus, Al Gore's version of global warming climate change, deities, or that I will be voting in this election cycle, but that doesn't mean my opinion has to be fossilized into unshakable dogma that must be imposed on everyone.

As I told Lucinda, "I'm an atheist, but I realize that without religion we would still be living in mud huts and have no science."   Without further ado, here's a whole lot of funny!

Centuries ago, my seafaring ancestor, Cristoforo Colombo, tricked a bunch of gullible Jamaicans into keeping him and his Spaniard crew fed with the help of superstition and an eclipse. Although my Taino side finds such trickery appalling, the Latin side finds it to be rather awesome that someone in my bloodline could pull of such an awesomely devious feat of sleight. Regardless of cultural schizophrenia, my family celebrated the Colón way. Hot food and storytelling provide a great way to pass time under the glare of a blood red moon peering at us through the frigid air. The special guest appearances of Saturn and Regulus, as seen through a telescope, were a kid-pleasing bonus. Speaking of little ones, one of Loki's best friends became a father today.

Just wanted to share.

ECLIPSE TIME!!!