Politics later.  I first start with something startling.   Hawaii is the best place in the world to watch the total eclipse of the Moon tonight . Starts at 10:02PM Hawaii time, turns blood red at 12:16PM, stays this dark reddish-copper color for 85 minutes, and ends at 3:46AM.  Duration:  5 hours, 42 minutes. And you can watch without wearing any safety glasses, which are required for solar eclipses. You would think that New York, which is now 5 hours ahead of Hawaii, would end at 8:36 AM when the sun would have been up for 2 hours.  But eclipses don't work that way.  For New York: Begins at 3:02 AM. Peaks at 5:59AM. Ends at 6:41AM, with the sun rising just before at 6:35AM Duration:  3 hours, 39 minutes. Thus, Hawaiians will see the whole lunar eclipse longer than anyone else. The next total eclipse will occur on 14March2025. No one won the  Powerball $1.6 billion  Saturday night. You needed to have white balls 28,45,53,56 and 69, plus red Powerball 20.  The Power Pay multiplier w

We are one month away from the midterm elections on November 8.  There is so much uncertainty and so much at stake this time.  Democracy vs Trump, for one, even though he is not running this year.  The Senate is currently at 50-50, but because Democrat Joe Biden is President, Veep Kamala Harris is the swing vote, giving Democrats control.  The House is a little more complicated, with 220 Democrats, 212 Republicans and three vacancies. One unexpected development is Republican Senator from Nebraska,  Ben Sasse , who was not a Trump fan, and had won a second term two years ago, decided to resign, probably at the end of this year.  Why?  Nothing much to do with politics.  Appears he will become president of the University of Florida.  He has noteworthy academic credentials:  PhD from Yale, taught at the University of Texas and was president of Midland University in Nebraska.  If he leaves, that adds another element of suspense as to which party will gain control of the Senate. There is a g