Oh, Great, Another Supermoon
For the past several years, I’ve been experiencing a tension in my relationship with the moon. I love the moon as much as anyone, but the problem, bluntly, is that the moon is too famous. Maybe you’ve noticed this. The moon is constantly in the news. It is doing something “rare” or “unique” seemingly every week. Local-news outlets will inform their readers that a supermoon is about to “take to the skies” or rise “over Milwaukee,” in stories that are not technically inaccurate, though they do fail to acknowledge that the moon is always taking to the skies and that it rises over everyone. (They will often also give advice on how best to view the moon, as though most of us don’t know generally where it is.)
