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I just wanted to take a moment to direct readers to Just Science 2008 a collection of bloggers who have all agreed to blog only science this week and post at least once a day. There’s some head-spinning technical stuff up there and some very witty writing as well.

I had originally signed up for the event early in January; however, dropped out when I realized this week was Super Tuesday and there was no way I was gonna be able to think about Science while checking the polls every five minutes. I’ve got a couple more political missives coming this week, and then I promise to get back to more thought-provoking stuff… well, thought-provoking on my level, which is like “sniffing glue in the High School Boys Room” kinda thought-provoking.

Barack Obama came out of nowhere, delivering a suprise inspirational speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, and writing two books Dreams from My Father and The Audacity of Hope, both of which revealed a remarkably intellectual individual who believes in Enlightenment ideals.

In the last four years, Obama has proven himself undefeatable in debate, delivering what youtube fans have dubbed the Obama SmackDown, where Obama refutes his opponents talking points with a finely articulated irrefutable rational response. The man cannot be Swift-Boated. Unlike Hillary Clinton, who simply has too much political history to sour her candidacy, and who cannot unite the country behind her. America has some very tough times ahead, and we need a real uniting force to get us through them.

I’ve loved this passage from Audacity of Hope, where Obama describes a computer monitor showing World Wide Web traffic patterns:

The image was mesmerizing, more organic than mechanical, as if I were glimpsing the early stages of some accelerating evolutionary process, in which all the boundaries between men–nationality, race, religion, wealth–were rendered invisible and irrelevant, so that the physicist in Cambridge, the bond trader in Tokyo, the student in a remote Indian village, and the manager of a Mexico City department store were drawn into a single constant, thrumming conversation, time and space giving way to a world spun entirely of light.

I have been so inspired by Barack Obama’s message and his rationality, that for the first time in my life, I was have donated $100 to a political campaign, Obama needs all the support he can get to edge into the lead for this Super-Tuesday.

Barack Obama understands what the future is about.

Panamanian Golden Frog Photo by Jeff Kubina

Correction: The Panamanian Golden frog has been extinct in the wild for over a year now, the significance of the article is that documentary makers caught the frogs in an elaborate mating dance, a sort of “last wave goodbye,” before extinction… This is what I get for blogging during the superbowl.