We Got Nothing

The eclipse was a bust in Beaglesonia too. We had hazy sunshine, so we should have seen something, but we did not. I finally turned on the Weather Channel to see if I had the time wrong. They have been running a message on the bottom of the screen all week telling about it. It was almost 3:30 when I checked, the message was gone, and the eclipse was over and done. They had people stationed all along the totality line, and I watched a couple of them doing recaps of the event. Carbondale, Illinois was supposed to have the longest period of totality, something over two minutes, but Jim Cantore said that the clouds rolled in just in time to block the view, and rolled out again as soon as it was over. Maria LaRosa was in one of the Carolinas and she had a perfect view. Our local weather guy on the evening news showed a film clip of the Mackinac Bridge taken at the time the eclipse was supposed to be happening. It was overcast and a little foggy there, but he said it should have gotten discernably darker, and it didn't. We were supposed to get 75% coverage, and I don't think we got anything close to that.

I have long believed that all those demonstrators, no matter what their cause, are more than a little funny in the head. Of course I have only seen them on TV, so I don't know how they act when the camera is not on them. It looks to me like they are trying to work themselves into a frenzy with all that chanting, and no good can come of that. There is always a risk of mass hysteria whenever people are gathered together like that, so you would think they'd want to exercise some kind of discipline. Staging a counter demonstration is also just asking for trouble. People demonstrate because they want to draw attention to their cause, so it would seem that the best way to minimize that would be to ignore them. Anything you do to draw more attention to them is playing right into their hands.