Bob Woodward has been making the rounds on a lot of talk shows, news programs, and the like. You may have seen him but not known it. He was the guy that was portrayed by Robert Redford in the film All The President's Men. Fun fact: he grew up in the Chicagoland area and attended Wheaton-Warrenville High School. Another local boy makes good.
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Big storms, hurricanes, and other natural disasters get a lot of news coverage because they are the kinds of events where puny human beings are at the mercy of the unleashed fury of Mother Nature and we can't do a damn thing about it. All we can do is observe and hope that our preparations are good enough to ride it out. As Hurricane Florence approached, a lot was made of the swine production in that area; there are ponds of pig manure everywhere and storm surges are not a good thing for their health and welfare. They are truly in deep shit.
I learned a little bit about tropical storms from one of the newscasts I stumbled upon recently. If the storm is in the Atlantic or east of the international date line in the Pacific it's called a hurricane. West of the date line it's called a typhoon and south of the equator it's called a cyclone regardless of where it sits relative to the date line. Kind of cool, you can get an idea where the storm is just by the name.
But Hurricane Florence is small potatoes. On the other side of the world a bigger storm is bearing down on the Philippines. For your weather watching enjoyment I give you Mangkhut, a Category 5 Super Typhoon:
It's funny that Uncle Ken should mention the Kennedy assassination. There is a theory from a few years back that I just learned of and it makes a bit of sense. Ballistics test indicate that JFK was hit by two types of bullets, one fired by Oswald and the other an accidental discharge by a Secret Service agent in the following car from a newly issued AR-15. And the real target was John Connally and not Kennedy, but that's a theory from a different crackpot. But with the passing of so many years we may never know for sure; nearly all the principals are dead.
Another fresh conspiracy theory is developing from the little hole in the International Space Station, the one that was originally thought to have been caused by a micro-meteorite. Well, that hole was drilled by a person or persons unknown and they found another one. Based on photographic evidence of the module before launch it appears that the hole didn't happen down here but up there. Both the Russians and NASA are keeping their mouths shut about this, for now. There could be a crazy person up there.
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Since low pressure areas draw wind from high pressure areas the wind doesn't blow. It sucks.
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