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Breaking Radio Silence
Jan. 14th, 2011 09:21 amI found that, having posted seven links on Wednesday, I had nothing left to talk about for Thursday. Since I don't get paid to blog by the word or the post (or at all, when it comes right down to it) I said nothing. Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on your point of view) I have a few thoughts for today.
Haiti: The first anniversary of the ginormous Haitian earthquake was on Wednesday. Sadly, reconstruction efforts continue at an exceedingly slow pace. You may have also noted a (lack of) public attention to the anniversary. My Rotary club is working on a Haitian project, and so are many other groups, but the world's attention has moved on.
Tennessee Tea Party: So, apparently the Tea Party in Tennessee has issued a list of demands to the state legislature. Key among them is to re-write the history books to address “an awful lot of made-up criticism about, for instance, the founders intruding on the Indians or having slaves or being hypocrites in one way or another." Apparently, telling the truth is "denigrating" the Founding Fathers.
Zodiac "shift:" I'm not a believer in Zodiac signs, but how they work is that if you are, say, an Aries, the sun was in the constellation Aries when you were born. Or, from the perspective of the people on the ground, Aries would have been invisible, high in the daylight sky.
The problem is that the Earth wobbles on its axis, and the sun hasn't been in Aries in March for over a thousand years. When astronomy and astrology split, the latter "science" stopped updating their charts. This became news recently because a Minnesota newspaper decided to talk to an astronomer. (Shocking, I know.) For those interested, Bad Astronomy has the details.
Haiti: The first anniversary of the ginormous Haitian earthquake was on Wednesday. Sadly, reconstruction efforts continue at an exceedingly slow pace. You may have also noted a (lack of) public attention to the anniversary. My Rotary club is working on a Haitian project, and so are many other groups, but the world's attention has moved on.
Tennessee Tea Party: So, apparently the Tea Party in Tennessee has issued a list of demands to the state legislature. Key among them is to re-write the history books to address “an awful lot of made-up criticism about, for instance, the founders intruding on the Indians or having slaves or being hypocrites in one way or another." Apparently, telling the truth is "denigrating" the Founding Fathers.
Zodiac "shift:" I'm not a believer in Zodiac signs, but how they work is that if you are, say, an Aries, the sun was in the constellation Aries when you were born. Or, from the perspective of the people on the ground, Aries would have been invisible, high in the daylight sky.
The problem is that the Earth wobbles on its axis, and the sun hasn't been in Aries in March for over a thousand years. When astronomy and astrology split, the latter "science" stopped updating their charts. This became news recently because a Minnesota newspaper decided to talk to an astronomer. (Shocking, I know.) For those interested, Bad Astronomy has the details.
