This Week in Statehouse Action: Be Sirius edition

I know a lot of folks believe that the “dog days of summer” are basically, like, just August, but did you know they’ve already come and gone? 

“Dog days” are so called because they refer to the period of time – a little longer than a month, early July through mid-ish August – when the Dog Star, aka Sirius, rises in conjunction (or close to it) with the sun.

And a long time ago, when things like astrological phenomena were ill-understood, folks thought that the combination of the brightest star in the night sky rising with the brightest luminary of the day was responsible for the extreme summertime heat (obvs this didn’t apply to the southern hemisphere, but I’m willing to bet I don’t have a ton of readers in that part of the world so maybe we can let it slide…?).

Now, of course, we know this to be super incorrect, but it makes some sort of rudimentary sense, no?

Speaking of sense – if that’s what you want, you’ll have to make it yourself.

Dog Days Are Over? 

A couple of weeks ago in this sp…