SARAH HOYT: Give Me Back My Spaceships and Dinosaurs.

We’re writing to set our minds and hearts free, to explore and roam places yet undiscovered. They might be strange places like… ancient astronauts, or as pulpy as I suspect the Shores of Kansas will turn out to be. In their ability to pit man against the dinosaurs of the ancient past or the aliens of the distant future, they tell stories only science fiction can tell. All it needs is the barest thread of verisimilitude, absent from fantasy. We know that sorcerers are imagined, but time travel, who knows? It might be real and we just having figured it out yet.

I have a collection of many hundreds of science fiction books dating back 60 or more years that I keep rereading for exactly Hoyt's reasons.

THE SCOREKEEPER today (#13):

From White House spokesman Jay Carney: "Six out of ten people without insurance can get insurance for $100 a day or less."

Let's see, $100 a day times 365 days is $36,500 a year.

And four out of ten pay more?

Gee, wonder why Democrats are having such a hard time this year.

Carney accurately quoted the real price of ObamaCare....

HARRY REID'S people who don't exist.

THE HARD SELL: No amount of advertising will make Obamacare attractive to the young.

THE BIGGEST HEALTHCARE SCANDAL you’ve never heard about.

And then, of course, there's Maryland.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON on ideologies without consequences: "Modern elite liberalism is based on the simple creed that one’s affluence and education, one’s coolness and zip code, should shield him from the consequences of one’s bankrupt thoughts that he inflicts on others. We are a state run by dead souls who square the circle of their own privilege, who seek meaning in rather selfish lives, always at someone else’s expense."

Consequences to liberals, that is....

SPRING LEAVES, Week Three: finally, a decent day. The yard is clear of snow, and I've finally begun to cut up and move the fallen branches from the winter snows. Here's today's view:

And with the picture some small evidence of blossoms:

Here's last week's picture and the one of the day after the day before.

IT'S BEYOND REPAIR, but is ObamaCare beyond repeal?

YES. NEXT QUESTION. Do ‘bag bans’ tick off consumers?

WIRED: Pilot flies through Greece's Corinth Canal.

NEWS I DIDN'T NEED TO KNOW: Elton John is getting married.

COMMENT OF THE DAY: "So two of the lowest temps in the last 14 years were right after Obama was elected and re-elected? Was that because Hell froze over?"

The post that elicited the comment is here.

"IT DOESN’T LOOK GOOD when more than 10 percent of the [California] Senate Democratic caucus is looking at prison time."

THEY'RE IGNORED: What Happens When The Facts Don’t Fit The Progressive Script? Facts are only facts when they fit 'The Narrative'.

TRIFECTA OF ZING: Fred Thompson scores with trio of Obamacare truth-booms.

BITTER WHITE LIBERALS urge University of Minnesota to rescind Condi Rice speaking invitation. 'Bitter liberal' is a tautology.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Pee plus chlorine yields a chemical warfare agent.

[W]e need [an olympic-sized] pool that is two parts water to one part chlorine and would probably burn the eyeballs out of your sockets and make your skin peel away from your bones (this calls for a pool boy who can only be criminally sadistic). If you and three million other people could get at this pool and unload your pee into it before your bodies melted, before the crowd crushed you to death, and before you drowned from the massive tidal wave of pee... yes, you could feasibly die of cyanogen chloride poisoning originating from chlorinated water and pee.

So it's probably safe to swim in yellowed water.

WELL, OF COURSE: 'Cooking the books' with ObamaCare? Given the Obama administration's past history, can there be no doubt?

PIERS MORGAN: "The gun lobby in America...has bullied this nation's politicians into cowardly, supine silence".

I see. You're the bully if you don't do what I demand. Goodbye, Piers. Don't let the door hit your behind on the way out....

LAST WEEK the Washington Post received a number of letters to the editor complaining about the comic strip Prickly City on the comics page. This week, the responses. My favorite contained this comment:

[T]o me, every page of the Post, including the comics pages, on which one finds 'Doonesbury', is the editorial page.

Too true.

TODAY IS THE LAST DAY to sign up for ObamaCare. WTOP radio is reporting that the ObamaCare web site is ... down for maintenance.

Government competence at its best....

SO THAT'S WHY I can never find ammunition.

GUNMAN INVADES DOLLAR GENERAL STORE, meets concealed carry permit holder, gets killed.

Good.