The Navy's successful missile intercept of a an errant spy satellite over the Pacific may provoke the wrath of China and Russia but my guess is that here in America the news will be received with the same joyful reaction shown by those hayseed characters, Billy Bob and Billy Sol, on the old SCTV sketch "Farm Film Celebrity Blow-Up."

The only criteria for films applied by the two Billies in the show was whether things "blow'd up real good." And, yes, from all reports, the falling satellite "blow'd up real good."

Hurrah for our side then. Of course, if this was really a sneaky test of our ability to knock down a satellite, and not something really required to save Americans from large objects falling on them, which, after all, is what Rush Limbaugh does every day, then I am not sure it quite proves the case. The satellite was said to be as large as a school bus. If it had those irritating stop signs deployed at the side, then it made an easy target.

Readers may be curious about the technology involved. Without revealing state secrets, I can tell you that it involved taking hundreds of millions of dollars in tax dollars and piling them up until they reached 130 miles into space. Then, a bottle rocket was fired off from the platform of the last $100 bill to intercept the incoming satellite/school bus.

Our tax dollars at work. We really didn't want to use them to alleviate poverty or rebuild bridges anyway. We got value for our money for once, so stop your complaining (you're worst than the Ruskies). It blow'd up real good -- and that's the main thing.

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