Anyone whose been pricing out housing in the U.S. today realizes a couple of things:

1)    It ain't cheap.

2)    The further you are from an actual city, the less pricey it becomes.

President "Two votes short of Mayor of Crazytown", along with NASA are proposing to turn this country around by spending $104 billion dollars to go back to the Moon and getting it all set up for private enterprise to get in on the works.

According to MSNBC, the goal here is "to start human settlement of the moon by 2020." At the same time, Space Cadet Bush will be getting us all off the oil teat by 2018. Hydrogen cars and moon condos. Boy howdy, toss in a few robot butlers and we're all FINALLY going to be living in Monsanto's "World of Tomorrow" from the 1964 World's Fair.

NURTZ has some concerns about commuting time though, and, unless WiFi undergoes some serious ramp up in the years to come, home officing doesn't really look like an option.

Between now and then though, we can look forward to amazing entertainments such as Virtual Moon Tours ("The NEXT BEST Thing to actually standing in a stark, bleak blasted endless landscape of dust piles and craters!!"), rock solid investment opportunities such as "for pay" telescopes on Malapert Mountain ("your five minutes are up, please insert another quarter") and mining for lunar helium-3, recognized far and wide as your basic high efficiency fuel for fusion reactors (that don't exist) and the stuff that makes the cool "vooosh!" sound in Jedi light sabers.

NURTZ sort of misses the days of green cheese.