Michelle just brought to my attention that my favoritest-ever congressional candidate is back!  Goodspaceguy Nelson is running for congress, again on the very sound platform that we should colonize space because this planet obviously isn’t going to hold all of us very much longer and is probably going to be blown up by an asteroid anyway.

I notice he’s made a few changes to his candidacy statement.  Let’s review.

First of all, his photo is full-color now.  As a man proposing we leverage our considerable technological skill to colonize space, I’m happy to see he noticed that computers support color images these days.  Well done.

Second, he appears to be concerned with the three-fold increase in human population in the last hundred years.

Instead of starvation, genocide, and war, we should use nicer methods (such as the head tax and birth fees and study and work and social security) to decrease the number of people boarding Spaceship Earth. Goodspaceguy is pro choice on almost everything.

How could you ever disagree with someone who is pro-choice on “head tax”?

Thirdly, diplomacy is important in politics, and this guy’s got it in spades.  Read this passage and think about how much better it sounds than “Get off the couch, you lazy, bottom-feeding Americans!”

Meanwhile on computerized Spaceship Earth, Goodspaceguy wants us to raise the quality-of-life by longevity research and by getting more people working, producing the goods and services that will make up our improving living standard and health. Let’s improve the incentive system. Let’s coax more people into productivity. Goodspaceguy wants safety-net employment of helpers. Goodspaceguy wants more people studying at our colleges during the underutilized evenings and weekends.

Well, Michelle and I are off to vote tonight, and you can sure as hell bet I’m voting for GoodSpaceGuy.  This guy is a “Straight-Shooter” with “Upper Management” written all over him!

Read more from the horses’s mouth at http://colonizeorbitalspace.blogspot.com/