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Podcast: Write On SC
Episode: Seeing Shadows & an Internet Grab Bag
Description: Is there any more arbitrary experience than Groundhog Day? It’s a day when an entire town lets a rodent predict the future. Or the weather anyway. Several questions:Is there any other profession besides weatherman insulted by the insinuation that an animal could do it as well or better than them?Is there any other animal with psycho abilities equal to the groundhog (who, by the way, is wrong like 80% of the time)?Is there any other tradition that is so meaningless and yet has persisted this long?The answer to all of these questions is ye...