In “First Blood” when Sheriff Teasle asks why God would ever make a creature like Rambo, Colonel Trautman answers God didn’t make Rambo; he did. If geneticists keep going the way they are Dr. Frankenstein’s mad dream may come true and there will be no need of Colonel Trautman, but Rambo Warriors will be “manufactured” in the laboratories; another SciFi dream/nightmare come true.

Since childhood it has been my dream to have Dracula’s castle and Dr. Frankenstein’s laboratory, mind-expanding places where every kind of mystery could be explored to the music of wolves, “children of the night,” the crack of thunder and flashes of lightning and Tesla electrical devices. But having to face the real world and being denied my childhood dreams, I have discovered a laboratory in my mind, and far more than a laboratory an empire as Thoreau pointed out that would put all worldly tyrants and their petty states to shame. And each one of us is in possession of such an empire of the mind; but some rule this empire better than others.

For example, politicians dedicate their minds to gaining power and wealth, ruling over others, and the corrupt leaders of nations like Mexico are dedicated to providing slave populations to serve their masters. Small wonder the president of Mexico pronounces “Wherever there is a Mexican; there is Mexico!” But then, he had America in mind and isn’t sending Mexicans to places like Iraq and Afghanistan, whereas our president is trying to do so with the enticement of American citizenship. Some choice— slave labor or cannon fodder.

Unfortunately for humankind, Nature has a way of producing freaks, politicians like Bush and the Clintons and those like the president of Mexico and Iran’s mad mullah among them, but there may be help on the horizon for all the tyrants of the world; science may provide all the slave labor they want without any of the nasty side effects of having to feed and clothe the slaves. By now many of you are aware of the “Google Cloud” concept that aims to gather and connect worldwide knowledge and make this available to the most humble of pc users. One of the most daunting tasks, however, is separating the wheat from the chaff; who will be in charge of separating fact from fiction? Or will such a magnificent achievement degenerate into an Orwellian nightmare? Perhaps cyborgs or androids will emerge having access to all this knowledge, wired to use it and rule the world; the scenario of many of the earliest of SciFi writers. At that; would we be any worse off than having Congressional committees and commissions deciding what the “truth” is?

Some time ago when I first learned geneticists were working on “glow in the dark pussycats” it was an intriguing idea; now, we are being treated to pictures of the result. On the “bright side (dreadful pun intended),” it might help to keep me from tripping over the resident cat in the dark. Thinking about this, of course I could give the cat a shot of fluorescent spray paint but she would lick it off and get sick. On the other hand, a permanent genetic fix might have some undesirable side effects presently unknown.

There seems little prospect Mexico will be launching a space shuttle any time soon, but what with the growing crime and violence in America due to the invasion of millions of largely illiterate Mexican illegal aliens and our “leadership” thirsting for these millions of slave laborers to displace American workers that seem to believe they deserve a living wage rather than slave wages, things might eventually degenerate into a condition where science may provide the answer through genetic engineering. While all good card-carrying “liberals” may decry sterilization and euthanasia, perhaps science will provide a satisfactory alternative; something along the line of things like the “Stepford Wives” that so many men think a pretty good idea.

One thing seems pretty certain, science is not going to leave it to Nature to work things out; and that may be best. For example, I have always thought the dinosaurs to be diabolical creations. God may not have created Rambo, but for those that want to credit this creature to God, I have to believe it was the “god of the underworld,” Satan:

“A graduate student has identified the remains of one of the planet’s largest meat-eating dinosaurs ever found. Steve Brusatte, a paleobiologist at the University of Bristol in England, determined fossils discovered during a 1997 Nigerian expedition belong to a new breed of meat-eating dinosaur called Carcharodontosaurus iguidensis. The upright-walking creature grinned with a mouth full of banana-sized teeth, stood taller than a double-decker bus and weighed more than two standard-sized cars… C. iguidensis weighed in at 3.2 tons and extended more than 44 feet (14 meters), but was not the largest terrestrial meat-eating dinosaur ever discovered. That title belongs to Spinosaurus aegyptiacus — an 8-ton, 55-foot (17-meter) long behemoth with a sail-like back.”

Among what I consider the miracles of Modern Man arriving on the scene of history and surviving is how did our early ancestors ever make it in such a hostile world? The dinosaurs like C. iguidensis may have been long gone, but the fact remains the world was still an extremely hostile place for humankind; and continues to be so in many places throughout the world today. But with the growing billions of mouths demanding to be fed, one might be excused for thinking if science does not come up with an answer very quickly, Nature may take a hand in balancing things out.

For example, magma may be melting Greenland ice. Volcanoes have been one of Nature’s ways of working things out; as have various plagues, earthquakes, storms, and we never know when or where one or more of these things might combine to “thin the herd.” Yellowstone may be overdue and erupt any time, and there is always the prospect of another E.L.E. from space some theorize spelled doom for the dinosaurs.

Well, back to my dreams of Dracula’s castle and Dr. Frankenstein’s laboratory. Science may yet come to our rescue, but I have the uneasy feeling there are going to be unanticipated side effects. Glow in the dark pussycats hold some charm for me; but glow in the dark people might not prove either charming or desirable; and the morbid joke of glow in the dark people from radiation poisoning isn’t really all that funny given the prospects of nuclear accidents or acts of terrorism. But if the best we can come up with is Bush and those presently running for president, Mexico’s president, Iran’s mad mullah et al.; ah, well… maybe glow in the dark people will satisfy those that think crime and violence in America is only a matter of “racial profiling.”