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ESPN President John Skipper said, "there was never any concern" that Lee’s name "would offend anyone watching the Charlottesville game." The concern, Skipper explained, was for Lee and potential social media heckling. So, Skipper took a potential and turned it into an absolute certainty...

Ipass upgrade is quick and painless. I just went to one of those Orosco stores (or whatever they're called) and it took like 15 seconds to swap it out. Bring the letter with you.

Have you every forgotten to go to the shipper, and instead just drove to the delivery? Asking for a friend.

I guess it needs to be pointed out that, during a non-eclipse, people don't look at the sun for more then a second or two, because it hurts, it's too bright to look at. Looking at the sun for a second or two, which everyone has done, or even 5 seconds, isn't going to fry your eyeballs. 10 will...

Here's a shot from NASA of the eclipse beginning to happen. At first glance you might think those are all sun spots. But if you look closer, you'll see that one of them is the International Space Station doing a gangsta photo bomb.

I could see that setting up to happen when I was on my way down to Florida from Des Moines. It was through St Louis on I-64 to I-57 down to I-24 in Illinois, and across I-24 to I-75 in Chattanooga. I-24 was basically in the totality band the whole way. I crossed the river into Paducah overnight...

The parking lot and surrounding area really filled up with people. Mostly from all up and down the coast. I stood next to a guy and his girlfriend from The Netherlands. This was his 9th eclipse. There was a family from Germany here.

This is hilarious. Fox & Friends Teases ‘Great American Eclipse’ Because…Of Course They Did The comments are brutal.

Parking lot lights here at the Pilot came on, too. Didn't exactly ruin it, but didn't go very far in helping enhance the experience. :rolleyes:

Hey, believe what you want. I'm not going to use an eclipse as a cudgel either for or against. But an eclipse isn't a mathematical improbability, it's a mathematical certainty. They are utterly predictable decades, even centuries in advance. That's why there are people who have seen 20 or 25 of...

The clouds here in this little sliver of South Carolina cooperated in biblical fashion. 90% of the sky was covered in white, puffy clouds, except where the sun was. And it was awesome.

With mathematical precision and predictability.

Lots of big white puffy clouds here. Some moments the sun is completely unobstructed, other moments it's completely covered. It's gonna be a roll of the dice, I think. This was a few minutes ago.

That's where I am, at the Pilot in Bowman, SC. I-26 exit 159. All I can do now is hope the clouds cooperate.

Charles Barkley speaks his mind without a filter, much like Trump. And Barkley is right - it doesn't affect the day-to-day lives of black people any more than it does white people. There are a few Confederate statues that I think should come down, because they were erected explicitly as a push...

The sun will fry the sensors in a camera if pointed at the sun for very long (more than a few seconds).

On TV, streaming on the Internet. NASA has high altitude weather balloons spread across the country so the total eclipse can be seen for hours, instead of minutes. (They did the same thing once with the Concord, where it flew along in the shadow for hours).

Monuments (statues, plaques, etc.) go up, and come down, depending on the sentiments and topics of conversation of those involved. When they go up, and come down, it always says more about those putting them up and taking them down that it does about who the monument is to. When you see someone...

Yeah, don't look at it. If you have a #14 welding mask, that'll work. Gotta be #14, though. Most aren't. But, you can use a camera obscura (which is what Vermeer used to paint his photo realistic paintings, actually). A camera obscura is simply a pinhole camera. A pinhole camera projects a...

A partial solar eclipse is pretty impressive, but a total solar eclipse is life changing. It's a large scale celestial event that is humbling and awe inspiring. You feel connected to the universe in ways got can't imagine. You suddenly get an understanding of enormity of scale and distance...