View From the Bushes

Long-time readers (an oxymoron if I ever saw one) of this blog, know that I don't post on weekends or holidays. Of course, today is the latter -- it's Columbus Day, and as such I won't be posting, or rather I won't be posting that much. Of course, this is also probably a bad precedent to set, since next thing you know I'll be taking off Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day (January 28th), National Whiners Day (December 26th, and certainly one I ought to be celebrating) and Talk Like a Pirate Day (September 19th, and certainly deserving a day off if ever a holiday did).

I did come across a news story over the weekend about someone being fired for running SETI. The question of whether or not he should have been fired is interesting in his own right, but when you check out what his boss is quoted as saying, then it enters a whole new dimension.

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero
Ross