The conservative pundits are bashing Obama for taking a vacation to the UK at the same time the deadly twister hit in Joplin, Missouri. Some are saying he bailed after his spanking by Netanyahu.

Obama does take a lot of vacations but everyone has forgotten one simple piece of evidence from a few weeks ago: He called out his wife’s love of tamales, even going as far as to recommend not getting between her and the Mexican staple.

I’m thinking his wife in retaliation announces she’s going on a vacation to Jamaica. And guys, we all know that the last thing you want is your significant other going there alone. Opie and Anthony proved this point a decade ago. (That link is not safe for work btw.)

So Obama said hey let’s go to Ireland and visit my roots, then to England to hob-knob with royalty instead. And the rest is history…

Maybe Harold Camping was right. From where I stand the craziness signals the end of the world.

(And I thought it was bad the first and second time I asked the question.)

There is, for starters the most-interesting timing award, which goes to Barack Obama for claiming the pre-1967 borders were the starting point for Isreal-Palestinian peace talks.

Always good to whip out that kind of talk during the same week the media is all over an end-of-the-world prediction. Then we hear about Iran and their testing of nuke trigger devices.

This is the same country that thinks black magic and genies are influencing their politics.

We have male reporters attempting to lactate to spice up a story on the topic. And by spice I mean confessions:

It was strange to apply a breast pump for the first time. My nipples aren’t accustomed to regular stimulation, and though I felt like I was defying the natural order, pumping was surprisingly pleasant. Nipples are filled with nerve endings, after all, and the gentle upward tug of the pump was both comforting and erotic.

The end of the world sometimes means throwing up in one’s own mouth, by the way.

People are hiding the gender of their children for fear of some kind of stigma. Or something.

“We’ve decided not to share Storm’s sex for now–a tribute to freedom and choice in place of limitation, a stand up to what the world could become in Storm’s lifetime (a more progressive place? …),” it said.

That’s right. They’re not saying whether Storm is a boy or a girl…

…”In fact, in not telling the gender of my precious baby, I am saying to the world, ‘Please can you just let Storm discover for him/herself what s (he) wants to be?!.” she wrote in an email.

Coming soon to the 2020 US Census: a box to check off non-gender. End of the world? Maybe. Another label for people who hate labels? Yes.

NPR is actually concerned about perceived bias after taking George Soros’ money last year.

So is the world ending? I don’t know. But these are interesting times. And by interesting I mean effed up.

They might as well have called it New Apollo.

NASA announced Tuesday that it found the ideal spaceship to take astronauts far from earth — the same one they’ve been working on for several years and have spent $5 billion on.

All the Orion capsule needed was a new name — the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle.

NASA said it decided the spacecraft would be what takes astronauts to a still-to-be-determined destination. The disposable capsule would take four astronauts on 21-day trips.

See, it’s a much better version because it is black.

There really isn’t a lot of “multi-purpose”, especially considering it is disposable. Once it drops in the ocean it is no bueno. And we have to launch the thing from the ground. With rockets.

The future of space travel, brought to you by the past.

I’m not sure anyone in NASA noticed but we have a launching pad in orbit: the Space Station. We could go from there and we wouldn’t need all those huge rockets.

We could have ships like these traveling to Mars:

Just sayin’.