Groundhog Day Disagreement: Only Punxsutawny Phil Says Six More Weeks of Winter

Who knew there was a Groundhog Day Supreme Court? And 2008 may go down as one of the rare years when one lone dissenter (the most famous judge) decided to have a different opinion about whether winter goes on for six more weeks. But just who are those other groundhog judges that represent North American, Canada, and the Caribbean? Do they know one another? Which ones are right or wrong? The trouble with this year is that every single one of the others saw their shadow and tell us that the northern hemisphere in 2008 will have an early spring. Only the more famous Punxsutawny Phil in Philadelphia, PA says that winter will go on until the spring equinox. At least none of them said we'll have to repeat today (or this article) into infinity as the movie "Groundhog Day" hauntingly and satirically showed us.

One might be tempted to think that just because the majority agrees on an early spring--it's going to be true. Well, as with any Supreme Court decision--it might fall within the law, but it doesn't necessarily mean reality works in tandem. Don't tell that to General Beauregard Lee, a prominent groundhog in Atlanta, Georgia who has honorary PHD's in Weather Prognostication and Southern Groundology. While sitting on those laurels--he claims to have a 94% accuracy rate in guessing what's going to happen every winter. Of course, he and Punxsutawny Phil have their political differences and probably don't "get" one another based on the huge divide of understanding between groundhogs from the south and the north. Reports are that, for the last several years, the two have differed in opinion on the early arrival of spring. Then there was that time people almost put dynamite down Beauregard's hole in the ground when he predicted an early spring and a major snowstorm befell Atlanta.