The Future is Today for Yesterdays Tomorrow!

Take a good long look at a calander... not the part with the Hooters Girl, I mean look at the numbers: 2-0-0-5

We are five years past 2000 and we don't have shit to show for it! What a jip!! We don't have jet packs, ray guns or space suits… We don't eat meals of astronaut food... We don't watch 3-D holograms... We have nothing that the scratchy black and white films from the 50's told us that we'd have!

The closest we came to the future we were promised was in 1998 when the singer from the Smashing Pumpkins shaved his head and started wearing silver pants every day.

What about flying cars, Ray? I can almost hear you say, Flying cars cant be more than a few years away, right? If you think so, then it makes me happy to know that they got internet in Neverland. (I can only guess that Cptn. Hook is charging an arm and a leg for it... well, I'm pretty sure about the arm part.)

If you think this place is ready for flying cars, take a really good look at the sides of the highways in this country. They are littered with cars! You can't spend more than 20 minutes in the car without seeing one broken down on the road.

Now picture that same car, except, instead of just inconveniently rolling to a stop on the shoulder of the highway, maybe in the height of the rush hour commute, on a hot, sweaty summer afternoon...

Picture that same car falling out of the fucking sky!

We can't handle this kinda responsibility. People in this country won't even stop to find out why their check-engine light is on! You think that they're gonna take the time to clear a flight path to 7-11?

The sky would burn with people on their way around town who felt that they didn't really need to climb to cruising altitude. Hell, they weren't even gonna be in the air but for 36 seconds - who would know if they didn't follow the rules?

Flying cars?! We still cant get a real alternative means of transportation to fossil fuels! In out lifetime, the best we can hope for is a car that runs on something other than gasoline that won't get you called names for driving it!

I would love to have my own flying car, but I know that in our lifetime they will be parked in the sky right where they belong - next to flying pigs, Wonder Woman's Invisible Jet and unicorns.