I am gritting my teeth, determined to stay positive, no matter the challenge. The Spousal Unit is currently sulking because — against all earlier predictions — looks like it’s gonna be a lovely sunny Monday in Burlington, Vermont, for the total eclipse. (He didn’t get the round tuit on reserving a hotel room.) Here north of Boston, we’re only supposed to get 93% of totality, which seems like plenty enough to me, but I’m not the astronomy buff in this household…
A new declaration in Mexico gives 19 cats roaming the presidential palace food and care fur-ever https://t.co/rC4s8rv7Pw
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 7, 2024
… Nineteen feral cats have free rein of Mexico’s National Palace, long roaming the lush gardens and historic colonial halls of the most iconic buildings in the country.
“They have access to every part of the palace, so they walk in on meetings, interviews and wander onto camera,” said Jesús Arias, the palace veterinarian, as a handful of feline friends brush against his ankles.
Now, the palace cats have made hiss-tory after the government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador declared them to be “living fixed assets,” the first animals in Mexico to receive the title.
“The cats are now a symbol of the National Palace. Just as we understand this world, I wouldn’t understand the National Palace without the presence of these cats,” said Adriana Castillo Román, general director of the National Palace and Cultural Heritage Conservancy. “We have to make sure the cats are taken care of.”…
Staff say they remember the feral cats living among the cacti and dense brush of the gardens as far back as 50 years ago.
But it’s unclear when they first appeared or how they even got into the building. While 19 live in the building full time, many more come and go, and staff suspect they slip under a small crack in the palace gate by night…
Palace staff worked with vets from the National Autonomous University of Mexico to vaccinate, sterilize and chip the cats, and build them little cat homes and feeding stations around the garden. They also hired Arias to take care of them on a permanent basis and give them a good life.
Neither Bowie, Coco or Ollin commented when asked how they feel about being “living fixed assets.” Coco swished his tail, while Ollin stretched out below a palace pillar and fell asleep.
“Meow,” responded Nube, a gray cat named after the Spanish word for “cloud” who enjoys greeting visitors at the door of the palace.
Somebody in Oregon won the $1.3 billion Powerball drawing. Seems like this would be a good week to buy a ticket, since the prize will be much smaller but there’ll also be far less competition?
The world's oldest man says the secret to his longevity is luck, plus regular fish and chips https://t.co/CY73950PBK
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 6, 2024
… Englishman John Alfred Tinniswood, 111, has been confirmed as the new holder of the title by Guinness World Records. It follows the death of the Venezuelan record-holder, Juan Vicente Pérez, this month at the age of 114. Gisaburo Sonobe from Japan, who was next longest-lived, died March 31 at 112…
Born in Liverpool on Aug. 26, 1912, a few months after the sinking of the Titanic, Tinniswood lived through two world wars, serving in the British Army Pay Corps in World War II.
The retired accountant and great-grandfather said moderation was key to a healthy life. He never smokes, rarely drinks and follows no special diet, apart from a fish and chip supper once a week.
“If you drink too much or you eat too much or you walk too much — if you do too much of anything — you’re going to suffer eventually,” Tinniswood told Guinness World Records.
But ultimately, he said, “it’s pure luck. You either live long or you live short, and you can’t do much about it.”…
prostratedragon
The Mexicats!
cmorenc
The difference between 93% coverage of the sun and total eclipse is profound. 93% is like the sky 20 minutes before sunset – you don’t at all get the weird brief “night” dimly lit by the coronal glow, nor the spectacular phenomenon of “Bailey’s beads” at entry and exit from the eclipse as the sun peeks through gaps in lunar highlands. The phenomenon of the last 5% or so of sunlight progressively disappearing is astounding – like a vastly speeded-up sunset with someone playing with a dimmer switch. The difference is that between standing with an attractive person at a distance in the same room and having great sex with them.
DROP what you’re doing and take a car trip to northern Vermont in the path of totality. You’ll be forever glad you did. Speaking as a veteran of 2 total eclipses and one technically annular eclipse that was so near-total as to closely approach the true totality experience. Alas, various shit*&^!! is keeping me from making a marathon 700 mile trip this time – closest totality path is weather-iffy as well for me.
gene108
There’s so much wisdom in this, it’s hard for many people to accept.
Ciotog
@cmorenc: I completely agree. A partial eclipse is nothing compared to totality.
TBone
How I stay positive some days – this mood music never fails! She’s got spunk and I think it’s just delightful 🙂
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-Q3gd6S1as
CliosFanBoy
FWIW, I found a pairs of safe viewing glasses were being given away for free at the local library.
Geminid
It sounds like you can still make a day trip tomorrow to catch the total eclipse. That’s what my Atlanta friend and I did in 2017. We left his house in the morning and drove north past Chattanooga into eastern Tennessee. We went to a state park, but it was crowded and a some clouds were coming in so we hit the road again. We drove out from under the clouds in time to stop on the roadside and catch the entire eclipse. As it approached totality, a nearby streetlight lit up and insects started buzzing and whirring like it was night.
TBone
In my next life, I want to be the Palace Veterinarian.
Kirk
I and many of my coworkers will step outside around 1:35 or so for a slightly long break to see the totality. Won’t get the whole build up, but as noted elsewhere the totality is the unique thing.
Dorothy A. Winsor
As someone with a kid who is allergic to cats, I cringed a little at the number of kitties.
hueyplong
“Somebody in Oregon won the $1.3 billion Powerball drawing. Seems like this would be a good week to buy a ticket, since the prize will be much smaller but there’ll also be far less competition?”
In this case, the “competition” would matter if that Oregon person had had to share the prize in what was presumably one of the bigger fields of entries ever. The fact that there wasn’t a tie means the “competition” was pretty much irrelevant. (There are hundreds of millions of possible combinations.) Another way of looking at this is that your odds of winning were about the same as everybody else’s, and I say that while guessing you didn’t even buy a lottery ticket.
Punchline is that if you play, do it when the numbers are huge, but it’s best not to play at all. In fact, calling it “playing” kind of plays into the mindset the lottery people want you to have, if you know what I mean.
Baud
The eclipse is tomorrow and Amazon hasn’t delivered my virgin sacrifice yet. I’m really pissed.
Ohio Mom
@cmorenc: If you are going to tell people to drop everything and drive into a madhouse, it’s only right to remind them to bring lots of food, water, a full tank of gas, probably some blankets, to dress in layers — to be prepared physically. And their eclipse glasses, obviously.
We are taking everything else on the list and we are only driving an hour and a half north — and counting on a three to four hour drive back home. We can do back country roads for the first part of the trip back but once we reach the Cincinnati exurbs, I’m expecting gridlock.
RepubAnon
Nice to see our feline overlords claiming their proper role.
cmorenc
@Kirk:
Step outside at least10 minutes before totality begins. The rapid change in the light (and the outdoor surroundings) and the progressive stages of disappearance of sun behind the moon is a big part of the experience, though totality itself is also profound, and like nothing else you’ll ever see. Photos and videos of the eclipse don’t come anywhere remotely (as in, light-years) near capturing what the experience is like witnessing it live for yourself.
TBone
It being Sunday, I’m wondering if Dong’s version of the Bible contains a statement of Miranda rights as well as a pricetag.
TBone
@Baud: snort!
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
I know I’m a bit overdue but I’m here now, though I have some bad news. Suffice it to say that while I was lost in transit I may have been…passed around a bit.
Geminid
@Geminid: My friend and I caught some history on our way to and from eclipse-viewing. On our way out we drove throgh downtown Dayton, Tennessee and saw the courthouse where John Scopes was tried. On our way back we stopped off at the Chickamauga battlefield park and walked around some. Tht’s a nice, spacious place to hike.
sdhays
@Baud: God’s going to be soooo angry with you.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
Surprised the wingnuts haven’t had it declared a holy site.
Scout211
Good luck to all of you eclipse travelers. I wish all of you a beautiful and clear totality tomorrow. I am looking forward to your stories posted here on Monday night. Have fun out there.
We here on the left coast have around 30-35% , which I’ve seen before in my lifetime, so to me this one is meh. I do have fun memories from my childhood in the 60s when we all made pin-hole shadow boxes and saw the partial eclipse reflected on the sidewalk. We were all scientists that day and it was so cool.
But today is for women’s sportsball!
Taken4Granite
I am also planning a day trip tomorrow to see the eclipse. As I am in New Hampshire, I have been tracking weather forecasts in multiple locations, all about 3-4 hours drive away in various directions. As of this morning the forecast for my Maine location is showing ideal weather, but that’s the farthest location from where I live. In Vermont and New Hampshire the morning should be fine but there will be increasing cloud cover in the afternoon; it will be a question of whether the total eclipse comes before the clouds do, especially near Lake Champlain.
Most of my candidate spots have significant (by regional standards) east-west roads through them, so if I find myself under an inconveniently placed cloud I can retreat one way or the other.
If you do go eclipse chasing, I recommend packing a colander with your other gear. During the partial phase you will be able to see the images of the partly covered sun in the light that passes through the holes.
lowtechcyclist
We’re with our friends, somewhere in the neighborhood of Archbold, OH. We’ve known this couple forever – he and I were housemates in grad school, she was the maid of honor when my wife and I got married, and they met in the run-up to our wedding. (We made sure they’d meet, we figured they might be a good fit for each other, and they hit it off right away.)
He’s on the faculty at Defiance College, so we’ll be watching the eclipse from the campus there, unless we decide to drive a bit SE to get further into the zone of totality. I’m guessing we’d get about 80 seconds of totality at Defiance, but it wouldn’t take a very long drive to get us two or three minutes of totality.
The real question is whether there’d be a lot of people on these rural roads tomorrow, because if there are, we don’t want to be trapped for hours away from any restroom. But looking at the map, I just can’t see where any big influx would be coming from. So we’ll see what happens tomorrow.
Anne Laurie
It’d mean making what’s usually a three-hour drive into tourist-crowded chaos, and then doing the same trip in reverse. We’re both too old for that, especially since Spousal Unit would be doing all the driving.
Much as I love him, I just don’t have the stamina, or the bladder capacity (rest stops in that part of Vermont are few & far between) for that kind of day trip any more!
Indycat32
I live in Indy and plan to watch from my front porch.
Gin & Tonic
Spousal Unit could drive up tomorrow. Totality is after 3:00 pm.
ETA: Should have read all the comments.
Marcopolo
Wonder if those cats have an opinion on Ecuadorian law enforcement breaking into the Mexican embassy in Quito to arrest the former Ecuadorian VP. He’d been hiding out there since Dec & had just been granted sanctuary by Mexico (if he could make it out of the country). As you can imagine this has caused quite the uproar with complaints from countries across the political spectrum. And Mexico has cut off diplomatic ties. Could almost see something like this happening w/ TFG though not sure what embassy he’d hide out in. Link: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/04/06/americas/ecuador-vice-president-arrest-mexico-embassy-diplomatic-tensions-intl-hnk
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
Sure, Jan, your boyfriend is real and he’s Vice President of Ecuador…
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊
sab
We are staying home. The first total eclipse here since 1806, before this city was built. We were supposed to go up to SIL but that got cancelled. Yay (although I love her) because there are only two roads (one of which might be closed) back to home and it will be two hours of gridlock and then rush hour.
Geminid
@Anne Laurie: That’s too bad, but I can see how the crowds would make a difference. My friend and I lucked out when we split from the crowded park and ended up on an uncrowded roadside. But eastern Tennessee is a much more sparsely populated area than is New England.
Marcopolo
As for the eclipse, I’ll be driving out tomorrow morning to southern Illinois. Will be watching it with friends not too far from where we saw the one 7 years ago.
Kinda crazy all that water under the bridge.
Also, is it me or is the eclipse mania a little more crazy this year? I think 7 years ago I was already out there a couple days early camping away from civilization so I wasn’t aware of all this last minute news hype stuff.
Kirk
@cmorenc: Oh, I’d like to. But again, this is “stop work to look at the eclipse”. And shutting down scheduled receiving/production / warehouse/shipping operations is expensive. The fact we’re going to do it at all amazes me.
Assuming, of course, weather cooperates.
artem1s
@Geminid:
This. you don’t have to be anywhere special. Pick someplace that’s relatively easy to get to and sit quietly. No participation required!
H.E.Wolf
Is this anything like that business about if you look around the poker table and don’t see the sucker….?
snoey
@Geminid: One more thing to remember is that this is mud season with fresh snow on top, so parking a city car on the roadside could lead to a long wait for a tow.
UncleEbeneezer
Why won’t Biden move the sun and moon to bring the eclipse to me?!!
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@UncleEbeneezer: He didn’t even try…
sab
Almost everyone is calling off work tomorrow even though we are down to the wire with tax time, and the boss bought us all eclipse glasses. I wouldn’t want to be on the roof with the Canada geese and the rest of my co-workers.
thruppence
I was planning to make a 5 day road trip, arranged time off work, but… It would be a lot of money that I don’t have and take time away from a lot of things I really need to get done, so – nope
hueyplong
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: … which, of course, leaves you with no choice but to vote for Trump.
Baud
@hueyplong:
To be fair, Trump would bring endless night to this country.
TBone
@H.E.Wolf: I pissed off a lot of former friends with this one: “The only people who support Rump are millionaires or idiots. Check your bank account and see which one you are.”
lowtechcyclist
@Indycat32:
Good plan! My older sister and her hubby live in South Bend, but BIL has family in Indianapolis, so they’ll be watching the eclipse from down there.
SFAW
@UncleEbeneezer:
Because he’s OLD!
RevRick
@Baud: Your package was rerouted to Akron, Ohio, because they need it more.
lowtechcyclist
@TBone:
Stealing this!
JML
I know it’s petty and small of me, but I want the Biden campaign to find as many ways as possible to make fun of TFG’s golf “game” and his constant lying and cheating about it. Because he’ll hate it, it’ll make him mad AF, and trolling him on things like that is exactly what he deserves.
(There’s a part of me that think that we can finally break the hold he’s got on some people if they start seeing him as the jackass in the family that always cheats at everything, pouts and whines if he doesn’t win, and basically is always the annoying blowhard you’re happy to see leave. but the smarter part of me keeps saying if they haven’t seen that by now they never will…)
Geminid
@snoey: I was just describing my own experience in this comment, not telling Ms. Laurie she or anyone else should try to replicate it. And as I said, we were lucky.
Baud
When it comes to saving this country, I’m a look forward not back kind of guy. So good on Bernie for doing this.
Via reddit.
narya
@Indycat32: Ohhh, that’s great! We originally had reservations for Lafayette (for Sunday) and slightly NW of the city for Monday, but cancelled them. The weather is too iffy for me to spend the time/money, but my friend is still contemplating a mad dash to . . . somewhere. I remember the traffic in which we were caught last time, and I have no desire to repeat that experience. Or sleep in the car.
Baud
@JML:
Biden seems to be doing a good job of needing Trump.
Jinchi
I feel for the poor guy, this is a big deal. You might want to make sure that your car is fueled up, because it’s 50/50 odds he’ll be sleeping in it somewhere on the highway tonight.
RevRick
@Scout211: Caitlin versus the juggernaut.
Geminid
@Baud: I think the needling is getting to Trump. His narcissism is a weakness.
TBone
@lowtechcyclist: 👍 don’t use it sparingly, sprinkle that shit everywhere!
TBone
@Baud: 💙issat why someone lit a fire in Bernie’s offices?
Jinchi
Well I don’t know that he “needs” him..,
Hamlet of Melnibone
@TBone:
I think even the millionaires are idiots to support him. I’m financially secure. I’m probably not going to have financial issues in my life, barring really bad health outcomes for me or my family-
Unless the Trumpers burn it all down. When you’ve essentially won the game, it’s insanity to risk having the board flipped over for a tax cut. It’s just insane. That money isn’t useful if society breaks down, and a Trump Presidency makes that break down a lot more likely.
RevRick
@JML: You are assuming that his supporters would be put off. But a huge part of his appeal is how transgressive he is. And don’t forget that the conservative mind assumes everybody is basically shitty, and those who are offended by anything he says or does are hypocrites who are hiding something.
UncleEbeneezer
Sorry to hear your dilemma AL. We had a similar situation in 2017 when our friends had their wedding the weekend of the last solar eclipse in Lake Quinault, WA but it turned out the FULL eclipse zone was still about a 2-3 hour drive South from there and we had no interest in doing a nightmare traffic day trip and all the lodging was totally sold out so there was no overnight option either. 97% was kind of neat but really not much different than the way the sky looks during a bad wildfire day. There was definitely SOMETHING different but it wasn’t really drastic. I hope to experience a full eclipse some day but I don’t know if there will even be one within a reasonable drive of Los Angeles in my lifetime. And the whole flying to somewhere to see one seems like way more $ and time investment than we will likely ever be willing to do.
TBone
@Hamlet of Melnibone: that’s implied in my mind 😆 but, for the sake of those who can’t see that for themselves (the entire portion of the cult who aren’t financially secure), it made sense to differentiate for the slow learners.
CBS Sunday Morning had a good segment about a new movie starring Kirsten Dunst: ‘Civil War.’
Jinchi
This is so much smarter than trying to out-troll Trump, like Marco Rubio did by mocking his hands.
TFG is a notorious golf cheat and even the sycophants applauding his victory know it.
zhena gogolia
@cmorenc: I work for a living.
zhena gogolia
@lowtechcyclist: That’s a good one! My father used to say something similar about being a Republican.
zhena gogolia
@Baud: I hope you mean “needling.”
JML
@RevRick: yeah, I know. it’s why the smarter part of me knows that really the only way to break people from this cult is to crush their candidates by beating them over and over again until the loser stink can’t be cleaned off. But I will enjoy the mockery and no one deserves it more than TFG.
UncleEbeneezer
@Scout211: Not just basketball but there is also what should be a great final at the Charleston Open tennis tournament with Danielle Collins vs. Daria Kasatkina. Collins is a former NCAA champion who didn’t make a big splash in the pros until just the last couple years and she is going to retire after this season due to some really difficult health issues. She’s one of the most physically aggressive and fearless players in the WTA. Kasatkina is a beloved player who is openly Bisexual and has probably spoken up for LGBTQ rights and criticized her country (Russia) more than any other. Both are players who are elite but will probably never win a Major. Players that Coco Gauff, Iga Swiatek and Aryna Sabalenka (WTA 1, 2 and 3) absolutely dread having to face because they can both beat any player on any given day and usually bring their best game against their biggest opponents.
JAM
How could a palace be complete without cats?
Geminid
@TBone: The guy who set that fire is going to prison for quite a while once he’s caught (I think he will be). He started the fire in a 3rd-story hallway while people were working inside Sanders’ office.
Betsy
Anne Laurie. You have got to go to the path of totality. Even 99% is not anything like totality.
You must not miss this! I beg you to get into position.
I promise you will not regret it!!
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
Did a post disappear upstairs?
TBone
@Geminid: good to know, thank you! Justice NOT delayed!
Edit: Oops. I thought you meant they caught him already.
Cheryl from Maryland
Great essay by Annie Dillard (Pilgrim of Tinker Creek) on experiencing totality. I’m not close to totality, so I’m staying home in the DC area for 87% with my glasses and colander. The 2017 eclipse in DC was also partial, but there were winds and cold and quiet birds, so I anticipate some joy with this one.
mrmoshpotato
Still the same crazy odds of winning.
Baud
@zhena gogolia:
Autocorrect is a Republican.
Betsy
@Anne Laurie: People tend to stagger their arrival times greatly. We had no problem with any traffic for the 2017 eclipse. The traffic peak is right AFTER totality, as everyone tries to leave at once. My friends and I found the after-effects to be also interesting, so we hung around watching the sky return to “normal” for at least a half an hour or 40 minutes, by which time most people had long since split. We never had issues at all.
but let me tell you on the otherwise very normal 2 1/2 hour drive back home, all three of us in the car were almost in a silent stupor. We all kept glancing at the sun, and thinking “oh you. I know you now.”
I left thinking: damn, I will never look at the sun the same way again, or think of the sun the same way again.
There is nothing like a total eclipse.
Jackie
@JML:
I had to look twice to see if you were referring to TIFG or RFK jr.🤔
Ksmiami
@Hamlet of Melnibone: he’s a chaos agent mob boss. And bad for business.
Kelly
Nice little windfall for the Oregon state budget. Oregon income tax will be 9.9%.
SomeRandomGuy
Regarding play on the off-drawings for less competition: It’s not worth playing the megapowerbillions unless the prize is unthinkably high, because the odds of winning are so trivially small. Competition isn’t a thing, because the number of possible tickets, compared to the possible number of plays, isn’t likely to result in a split prize. In fact, while I’ve heard of split prizes in the “you might win as much as TEN MILLION DOLLARS!” games, I’ve never heard of one in the “this is a significant fraction of a billion dollars” style games.
Of course, lottery news bores me, so I might have missed it, given the last newspaper I read still bled ink onto one’s fingers (and one’s Silly Putty). Still, when I think about it, I also don’t hear much in the line of pool prizes, where someone partnered with N friends, and bought NxM tickets, and they split the winnings. Given that these prizes aren’t expected to be won in any random drawing (that’s why the prize money pools so high), I suspect that there’s never the level of tickets bought needed for you to start expecting dual (or higher grouped) winners for a split prize.
But that’s a mathematician’s broken brained thoughts. I’m no longer able to juggle the numbers well enough to provide actual data.
Kelly
We were lucky on the 2017 eclipse. Our home was at the centerline of totality. We issued a general invitation to friends and family. At one point we had about 20 people planning to camp in our yard. Only ended up with two couples. I concur with all previous comments that totality is way neater than partial totality.
Seanly
In DFW area, staying with a friend of a friend, supposed to be some clouds tomorrow in the area. Wife isn’t big on crowds and we got enough of those yesterday at the Fort Worth Stockyards. It’s totality or nothing. It’s only during totality that you can take off the glasses and see the corona of the sun.
I wanted to go to a nearby festival (there are a lot apparently) closer in to the center of the band. With the forecast for weather and crowds, I compromised with my wife that we’d go to a nearby FW city park and just do a little picnic. Should still get a around 150 seconds of totality.
I’ve been planning to see this eclipse since I got to see totality in 2017. That was so awesome.
Viva BrisVegas
A partial eclipse is bound to disappoint. All that happens is that the sun stays bright and the sky stays blue as your eye adapts to the reduction in sunlight. Shadows get strange, but it’s all a bit ho-hum.
It’s totality that is one of those rare things that makes you think that just maybe the universe was designed by a god. It’s like a black hole surrounded by fire that just hangs in the sky. The only word for it is transcendent.
Geminid
@TBone: I just think they will catch the guy. The scheme did not seem well thought out. Plus, this is probably a federal matter with a fairly high priority.
SomeRandomGuy
@JML: That’s something that bugs me. I don’t see enough people making fun of this grotesque toad of a human. I saw one of his interviews, and he’s slouched over as only a man with a gut his size slouches – might as well be pregnant, all that blob in front.
I saw that, and I couldn’t help but think, “dude, he even LOOKS like a toad – in fact, if you took an Aspirin, you’d call him a pervert… also, a Pervect.”
(The Aspirin in question is of the Robert Lynn variety. Natives of Perv are self-labeled “Pervects” and other-labeled – oh, come on, I don’t have to spell it out, do I?)
The HAIR, for the sake of all gods of mirth, satire, and FUGLY.
“This man wants to build an ‘Iron Dome’ around America. Here’s how he thinks it works:” (cue bingbingbing video, with community notes “this is NOT doctored!”)
He’s a horrible, nasty, bully, and he’s a bully in full view of his supporters, which means his supporters see enemies that must be broken down. The way to defeat him is to have everyone scornfully saying that it’s his CORSET that makes him need the Depends, that, and the shoe lifts. It’s a filthy libtard LIE that it’s due to the abuse of Adderall, which he DOES NOT snort.
People should be mocking the Republicans for backing him, asking if an even 100 felony counts, for things WE WATCHED HIM DO, is enough? How about convictions, will Repubs need an even dozen convictions of national security felonies, or will they hold out for a full baker’s dozen? Will the press go all a-ga-ga when the jury starts to deliberate on the crucial 13th count? Will Evangelicals say you can’t trust the number 13, because the 13th member of the group betrayed Jesus?
I’m not saying that people should ignore the threat. I mean, people should laugh at Trump the way Putin laughs to imagine a new Trump term. Putin and Kim Jung Un probably have laugh fests about how easily Trump is manipulated, and they probably gulp cabbage to see who can rip the loudest, ripest “donald” ever.
We shouldn’t forget that stuff – because laughing at Trump’s ilk is the best weapon we have against them. The American Nazis are a bunch of people who think they’re tough as nails, because they can SHOOT GUNS!!!, but they won’t stand up to rotten eggs and belly laughs.
StringOnAStick
I’m glad we didn’t make eclipse plans months ago because I have to report for jury duty tomorrow at 8:15. We’ll get 32% here at around 10:30 and if I’m lucky, I’ll be done with my instruction session by then. I’ve got my colander ready!
Victor Matheson
Actual expert on lottery economics here. Nice thought about the smaller jackpot/less competition, but you would be way wrong! :-)