Headline of the day

[cactuswatcher]

From my newspaper's web home page.

Total Lunar Eclipse Expected Saturday.

Expected? If none occurs that would be real news. Maybe the paper doesn't trust those rascally scientists? What's the point of "expected" except for fill verbiage? Why do you need fill on a web page that changes every few hours?

Comments

[anomster.livejournal.com]

I didn't even hear about this ahead of time. I was walking to a Purim service in my neighborhood (note to angeyja: in upper Manhattan, so definitely cityscape!) & saw the moon maybe 30 degrees up. I wondered why it was such a small crescent. (Purim always falls at the full moon.) When I got back home I heard about the eclipse on the radio--that explains it!