Sunday, February 2, 2014

Groundhog Day Is Stupid

I get that it's a popular tradition, thanks to Bill Murray. I also get that it's part of someone's culture and has been around for awhile. But regardless of if the groundhog sees it's shadow or not, the season of winter isn't over until more than six weeks later. Even taking that into account, the stupid animal is only correct with it's prediction 39% of the time, or the equivalent of Sylvia Browne. 
I guess I could use this space to be trendy and point out the corporate greed of the latter, but that's been done to death now by the entire internet. But being as we don't get Groundhog Day as a paid holiday, and we also don't get Valentines Day either, we should combine the two. Groundhogtine Day would celebrate both groundhog meteorology and the deeds of St. Valentine, as well as the unreliability of both. Even better, furries will be left alone for the entire day and no jokes will be made about them. Okay, the last part is a stretch. 

How much wood would you chuck?