Have you been checking out the Planetpalooza that has been on display in the night sky the last couple of months? Hope so. Our solar system has been strutting its stuff in the southern sky, putting on a planetary alignment array that has been—and still is—rather dazzling. And now that the doggone smoke is gone, it’s even more of a glittering glory.
Visible as soon as dusk gets dark (8 p.m. is good), you first see Mars, very obvious in its red rage just above the horizon to the south. Can’t miss it. Then, to the right, at about 2 o’clock, you’ll see, more faintly, Saturn. From here, make a wide arc to the right to see the next obvious bright star, which is mighty Jupiter. Then, still to the right, dangling just above the mountains to Reno’s west, is the brilliant evening star, Venus. This epic configuration was at its zenith in early August, when the full moon was in the center of this cosmic quintet, perfectly placed between Saturn and Jupiter. It was all so freakin’ Kubrickian I could barely stand it, the kind of perfect heavenly alignment that looked like a signal heralding the opening of some stellar portal into the Mind-Boggling Beyond.
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It’s fitting that a walking perjury trap like Twitler would nominate a demonstrable liar for the Supreme Court. And make no mistake, the Dems have Kavanaugh’s ass totally busted for lying in ’04 and ’06 in hearings surrounding a controversial Bush nominee named Pickering. Hey, forgive me if I sound like a naive refugee from 8th grade civics class, but aren’t Supreme Court justices supposed to not lie about shit? Am I hopelessly old-fashioned here?
On this topic, here’s a snarky little tweet I recently fired off—“Truly pitiful and infuriating to know that of the 49 Republican male senators, not a one can be counted upon to buck the hideous party line. Not a one with a nut in the vicinity of his david pecker. Hey Flake and Corker, vote NO on Kavanaugh! Why the hell not? WTF is the prob?”
It’s time, Flake and Corker. You guys have been crabbing about Trump for a while now and yet continually voting for everything Agent Orange wants. This is smarmy, shoe-licking spittleshit, now standard for GOP senators with spines of smegma. We ain’t impressed, to put it mildly. But—all will be forgiven if you suck it up, walk the goddam walk, and vote NO on Trump’s personal power tool. We forgive easily here in Sanity City!