If this isn't the grimmest possible news, I don't know what could be.

Glenn Reynolds has welcomed what he calls "our new alien overlords."

What I cannot understand is the almost insouciantly nonchalant manner he links a damning picture to prove it.

What I find especially significant about this is not the presence of an alien in the White House. I'm sure there have been many aliens in the White House; in fact Bush is already in trouble with his base for apparently letting aliens have their way.

Of course, we can all argue over the meaning of the word "alien." Some say the word should not be used at all. And as always happens when words are politicized in such a manner, inevitably there's finger pointing between different affected groups. In the case of aliens, aliens from South of the border point the finger at aliens from elsewhere.

I took pictures of Philadelphia aliens making this exact point:

But I'm getting away from the point, which is the truly ominous significance of the latest White House alien sighting. While Glenn Reynolds is often called a "glibertarian," he isn't known for glibness so much as linking other people's posts without saying much, so I think the word is usually a misnomer.

The problem is that sometimes Glenn does say very damning things, and in this instance, his damning words were "I for one welcome our new alien overlords." Whether that's "glib" I don't know. "Glib may be an understatement. "Terrifying" would be more like it.

I mean, think about what Glenn said. Let it sink in. He didn't just call the alien an alien and leave it at that. He welcomed him her it. Alien rule by this, this thing! Such a statement coming from a techno-futurist-transhumanist-singulatarian-geek type can only mean one thing: the alien in the picture behind Bush is up to something.

What might that be? Well, does it really take a rocket scientist to notice what the awful creature is staring at? Bush's back, that's what!

That is, the back of the president of the United States! Now, it does not matter whether he's a lame duck president, what his poll ratings are, or how much stuff he can get through Congress. Because, by virtue of his office, the man still has an enormous amount of power. And if a sci-fi-reading techno geek known as the blogfather considers him in the grip of our new overlords, we all ought to be very worried. Even cynics like me who don't read scifi.

I don't have to read scifi to look at evidence or to examine facts, especially documented facts. I realize that Americans are known for their short political memories (perhaps the aliens are counting on that), but isn't George Bush's back well known for something?

Are we so dumb that we have forgotten all about the once-notorious suspicious bulge?

Just a few years ago, the "suspicious bulge" was all over the Internet, and subject of much discussion (even a blog was dedicated to it), without any solid conclusions being drawn about what it was doing to Bush or who was operating it. Many people realized it was a new high-tech command-and-control device of some sort, but (probably because of a clever disinformation campaign), most of the people who really cared ended up concluding that Karl Rove was the switchmaster.

Well guess what? Karl Rove is gone, isn't he? And on the day of his departure, Glenn Reynolds was acting suspiciously. Very suspiciously. While this was all thoroughly documented here in this blog (finally even Glenn was forced to admit that something was up), because of my very trusting nature it never occurred to me that the power transfer might involve more than a transfer of power from one human overlord to another.

And now Glenn has confirmed that this was not a human to human transference, but human to alien. (Frankly, I feel duped. Again.)

Who needs science fiction when things like this are happening right before our eyes?

And if you think voting for Hillary is going to make the slightest difference, you might ask yourself why -- just days ago -- she would go out of her way to complain that she's being misperceived as an alien:

Asked by host Ellen Degeneres what the biggest misperception about her is, Clinton chirpily replied: "You know, that I'm some kind of creature from an alien world, I suppose."

Such glibness by Hillary puts Glenn to shame. Frankly I think it's all coming from the same alien script which I steadfastly refuse to read. (I'd rather not be subjected to the details of how I'm to be dragged away and consumed by their mechanized death machines! Or why Hillary might be dying her hair as part of a plot to hide the grays.)

So go ahead and laugh. While you can.

I used to laugh too. At pictures like these:

Puts a whole new spin on "dynasty," doesn't it?

MORE: I guess I should have titled this post "Overlords, overladies, overpasses, whatever," 'cause the aliens are screwing with us big time. Predictably, they are behaving like the science fiction stories I refuse to read:

"block off all possibility of escape and allow the dark army of soul-harvesting machines to fulfuill their horrible duty." Whatever that means. Persons who wish to travel from the west side of the 35W gulch to the east side are advised to string a rip line between phone poles and make an adventure out of it; the Crosstown, meanwhile, has been reduced to one lane, which must accommodate traffic moving in both directions. Expect delays, detours, and the sudden terrifying sight of your airbag exploding in your face like your steering column threw up a pillow or suddenly gave birth to the Pillsbury Doughboy.