<Spaced Out. Okay, maybe now and then there is something good besides the cartoons on Salon since Paglia stopped writing there.

Last paragraph:

Soon after Columbia broke apart on Saturday, the following message appeared in my e-mail. It's a quote from "Star Trek: The Next Generation," and it's been making the rounds. Its message is not to minimize the death of seven astronauts, but to remind us of what the point of human space exploration really is:



"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous; with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid."



Whoa. "Q" has to tell us how it is?