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This enormous sculpture of a Native American listening to an iPod is proof positive that Mars was once home to an advanced culture. Only a superior technological society could have formed such a vast — huh? — it’s not on Mars? It’s a rock formation in Alberta, Canada, not far from Medicine Hat?

Wow. That Martian civilization was more advanced that I thought. Just imagine — flying all the way from Mars to Canada to carve that mountain sculpture.

NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day today has a ghostly look fitting for Halloween.

Pretty scary, huh, kids?

It says, right there in the Bible: “And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out,” but this is a new take on turning a blind eye:

How important is global warming in Maine? Not important enough for local television.

Michael Palmer, the general manager of television stations WVII and WFVX, ABC and Fox affiliates in Bangor, has told his joint staff of nine men and women that when “Bar Harbor is underwater, then we can do global warming stories.”

“Until then,” he added. “No more.”

Listen — this is a free country. Mr. Palmer has an inalienable right to his willful ignorance. If his eye offends his devotion to the Bush-Cheney agenda, he can gouge that sucker right out.

But that doesn’t mean we have to put the willfully ignorant into jobs where they can keep the rest of us in the dark until it’s too late.

This man needs to find a new line of work.

I have to admit it — I just don’t understand genetics. You inherit your genes from your parents — okay. But some traits seem to skip a generation or something.

I’m just now starting Bob Woodward’s latest book, State of Denial. Listen how smart Old Man Bush was in a February 1999 speech to about 200 Gulf War veterans:

Had we gone into Baghdad — We could have done it. You guys could have done it. You could have been there in 48 hours. And then what? Which sergeant, which private, whose life would be at stake in perhaps a fruitless hunt in an urban guerilla war to find the most-secure dictator in the world? Whose life would be on my hands as the commander-in-chief because I, unilaterally, went beyond the international law, went beyond the stated mission, and said we’re going to show our macho? We’re going into Baghdad. We’re going to be an occupying power — America in an Arab land — with no allies by our side. It would have been disastrous.

The old guy is almost psychic, huh? This is more than four years before his son’s Iraq War, which has played out just like the Old Man said.

His son, El Presidenté Bush, told Woodward years ago that he didn’t ask the Old Man for advice. “There is a higher father that I appeal to.” (Cheney, I’ll bet.)

So, anyway, if basic good sense is one of those traits that sometimes skips a generation, don’t you think we could find some way to keep the guy it skips over out of the Oval Office?