A celestial event which last occured in 1886 completely slipped my attention. This morning, Venus transited the sun, a spectacular way to start the day by any account.
Of course, had I actually remembered to look for it, I would have been out of luck as the cloud cover today was abysmally thick. Check the link for some gorgeous pictures taken elsewhere.
Fortunately, the next chance is a relatively soon eight years from now. I’m already putting it on my calendar!
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Thanks to the enormous pressure the millions of loyal MT.Net readers placed on the Orange County School Board, Keith Cook has stepped down as chairman of the board! While its natural to want to congratulate ourselves, keep in mind that Cook only stepped down from the chair; he didn’t actually resign from the board.
I think Carynne McIver, Orange High School’s valedictorian, said it best:
“It was an honor to speak at graduation, and I feel like he took it lightly by taking someone else’s speech,” she said. “I was very disappointed by it.”
Not only did Cook set a bad example by plagiarizing, he insulted those kids who worked very hard to get to that graduation. Cook couldn’t take the time to write a five-minute speech so he stole someone else’s.
We’ll see if resigning from the chair is enough of a mea culpa for Keith Cook on election day.
