In one of the crazier traditions we apparently exported across the nation, Pennsylvanians predict how much longer winter will last by whether a groundhog sees his shadow on a specific day in February. Its a big deal; the Washington Post covers it. Amateurs in other states are now doing it, resulting in them having their ears bitten off. That groundhog saw his s hadow Monday, so I'm told we are in for a lot more winter. Six more weeks of it, to be specific. We do this every year, and pretty much every year we get the same result: six more weeks of winter. An editor I used to work with often pointed out that giant television and photography lights kind of pushes you toward one outcome over another. I guess when you rely on a groundhog for your weather predictions, you aren't picky about such things. There is even a "culturally significant" film starring Bill Murray based around it. In the movie, Murray's character repeats the...
We tried for one, and we ended up with a bushel of fun.