Furious Indifference.

This Day in History, November 14 th Friday 14, 2003: Planetoid 90377 Sedna is discovered. (hopefully it won't hit us "When I'm Sixty-Four). Thursday 14, 2002: The US House of Representatives votes to not create an independent commission to investigate the September 11 attacks. Wednesday 14, 2001: Attack on Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters takeover the capital Kabul. Tuesday 14, 2000: Netscape Navigator version 6.0 is launched following two years of open source development. Saturday 14, 1998: Dennis Rodman and Carmen Electra are married in Las Vegas, Nevada. Tuesday 14, 1995: A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums. Sunday 14, 1993: Michael Jackson enters a drug rehabilitation program to treat an addiction to painkillers. Thursday 14, 1991: A fired United States Postal Service employee goes on a shooting rampage, killing four and wounding...

I really didn't know what to do with all of the Obama campaign stickers I have been given during all of the debate party's and phone-banking meetings at my house in the last few months... So, I decided to cover my cheap 4" reflector telescope with them... it kinda looks cool in my opinion. Even though it is not exactly a precise, expensive scientific/optical instrument, it has done a relatively good job of showing several of Jupiter's moons (and the "Great Red Spot"), the mountains and craters of our moon, and the reddish orb of our occasionally close neighbor Mars in exquisite detail. It has provided many evenings of awe for my son and I and friends, marveling at the clockwork of our solar system, and the beauty beyond our world.