This is even bigger than than the neocons' plan for the worldwide democracy we are fighting for in Iraq ... and elsewhere!

Hopefully, Rummy and Dick Cheney won't read this morning's Science News.

Otherwise, we will be gearing up (we're talking a major mobilization!) to democratize the amoeba-like structure to the right before it becomes a Communist Blob.

The "blob" is 200 million light-years wide and "made up of galaxies and large bubbles of gas" ... and is the largest unexplored non-uninteresting-space in the universe, according to a couple of Japanese scientists who belong to the team that is researching it/them.

One theory believes that the gas bubbles in this blob are "cocoons" that will someday "give birth to new galaxies." They (the gas bubbles in the blob) were formed by large explosions (supernovas), so the US may already be developing secret weapons capable of exploding as supernovas -- pre-steeped in US-like democracy, of course.

It's a good thing that Mr. Bush doesn't read material beyond the level of My Pet Goat (his words were along the lines of "I don't read") and Rummy and Cheney aren't known to read science magazines or the morning newspaper -- this was in this morning's Sunday News.

Richard: Let's keep this posting's information in Connecticut, okay? Joe Lieberman isn't likely to spill the beans--even to his Republican friends and William F. Buckley is too smart to do anything foolish with it.

I don't think.