SANJAY SAYS
Comparing an Eclipse to a Colonoscopy
It’s not about the shadow, it’s about the light
What is up with everyone’s fascination with this eclipse today? Is it a slow news week?
The sun is going to disappear in the middle of the day, for an hour. It happens every night, but it happening off-schedule once a generation merits non-stop coverage and commentary?
Is it the rarity of the event? I have a colonoscopy only once in 10 years, but I don’t invite my friends and family to watch that ring of fire.
Maybe it’s our love for an underdog story, the triumph of the wee little moon over the big powerful Sun? Really?
In nearby Niagara Falls, apparently the epicentre of the event, parking has gone from $10 to $100 in public lots. $50 hotel rooms are going for $1000 on a Monday night. The weather looks pretty cloudy. It’s going to be a disappointing afternoon for the lemmings in that line of traffic, heading from Buffalo and Toronto, to the centre of this twice in a lifetime shadow show.
I understand the primal fascination. In ancient times, monkeys, Neanderthals, and our own ancestors didn’t understand what was happening. Was the world ending? Was God punishing his children?
