Photo: Patrick Capone
Tonight we experience the Blood Moon lunar eclipse in Chicago. Civilizations in the past have considered this event a bad sign. To some it meant that an important king was about to die. In Babylon, the king would resign on the night of the Blood Moon, appoint a random family from his kingdom to the job. They would be oiled, fed a chicken dinner, and then their heads were cut off. Then the king would take the thrown back the next day. Damn Politicians.