Bang, zoom, to the moon -- you heard right, President Space Cadet wants the U.S. to build a base on the moon, and send humans to Mars! In some kind of desperate Kennedyesque motivational ploy, Karl Rove has apparently directed W. to the heavens. But OTOH, why the hell not? What else have we got to spend our money on? Certainly not any pressing problems here on earth, right? Maybe this will clear the way for the Republicans to befoul the planet completely and we'll all have somewhere to move to -- if we clear Martian Homeland Security, of course. Note the retired Air Force general quoted here: "This stuff is not cheap." But we're spending $1 billion a month in Iraq, what's another couple hundred billion? And who cares about the dangers of manned spaceflight -- it won't be the Bush twins rocketing into outer space. At least, not yet.