Wired for some reason picked up an article on Mercury being in Retrograde. Astrologically, Mercury relates to communication and contracts and shit, so its a bad time for such things. People also attribute it to causing technological problems as well.

There’s a nice quote from Brezsny about it:

“This is one of the most notorious cases of astrology abuse,” argues Rob Brezsny, whose Free Will Astrology column has a widespread following. “Most people who talk about Mercury in retrograde don’t know anything.

“They make excuses for a lack of will force in their life, and basically it’s a way of saying ‘I don’t have any control in my life, I’m giving my power over to those invisible forces.’”

And there’s an irritating ass quote from some astronomer:

“Astrology has been disproven so often and in so many ways, it’s not very easy to give it much credence,” says University of Denver astronomy professor Robert Stencel. “The gravitational force of Mercury is negligible. If astrologers need a different force, they need to clarify what the nature of that force is, and that’s not been forthcoming.”

‘Scientists’ like this need to get off everybody’s backs and spend more time being useful and less time trying to prove how other people aren’t.