There are some who believe that our little planet is being watched over by impossibly advanced and powerful aliens who monitor our activities, abduct the odd farmer for experimentation and probing, and wait patiently to watch how humanity conducts itself. If that's true, then we're approaching the time when they reveal themselves in all their majesty, come down to Earth, and say, "That's it, we're stepping in — you humans have gone too far."

I surely can't be the only one who contemplated that possibility as we watched Donald Trump win most of the Super Tuesday states. While it's still possible that Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio could, through some Rube Goldbergian set of circumstances, actually prevail in this contest, it's now looking like one of our two great political parties is going to nominate Donald Trump to be president of the United States, the most powerful human being on Planet Earth.

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