Frazz by Jef Mallett for December 22, 2021

Right on! The SUN doesn’t come up, but if you’re away from a city in those parts of the world, by golly you have plenty of lights to look at things by. Starry skies, auroras, and the moon on a clear night in the arctic are indescribably beautiful.

When I was a kid, we thought that was the Statue of Limitations, and boy did we come up with some doozies for what that had to be.

In the northern reaches of Alaska, the sun disappeared back in November. People won’t see the sun again until late January.

And other places where it never goes down. Both would drive me crazy.

Kid is right. Imaging those features is definitely not the same a seeing them in daylight.

The only limitation is your brainpan.

There are parts of the world where the sun never goes down this time of year either.

Take THAT, Flat-Earther Imbeciles!

Little girl, this is why God invented the camera.

If there’s a statute of limitations for this, it will be measured in nautical miles.

Come to central Ohio which in Winter months is the place to go when someone says stick it where the sun don’t shine.

There are mountains just north of the Los Angeles metro area, but growing up there in the 1950s one could only imagine them most days due to smog.

(Furthest north I’ve been is Trondheim, Norway at the end of May; sunlight until amazingly late in the evening but not the full 24 hours as this is still some miles from the Arctic Circle.)

“Child, I have come to give you your advice for the day. Never marry, or even dally with, a Scandinavian.”“Why not, Grandmother?”“They are all insane.”“All of them?”“Mm-hmm. It’s the latitude! A winter when the sun never rises and a summer where the sun never sets are more than enough to addle the brains of any man.”

Once again, we maintained an all-night Winter Solstice fire vigil to help make sure the sun found its way back again. No need to thank us, it’s just what we do.

Taken broadly, this is quite the philosophical quandary.

In the far North when the sun goes down for the last time in months and things seem bleak the Northern lights fill the sky time and again almost making up for the lack of sunshine and seritonin.

If we didn’t have that 23.5° as in 0° the world would have just bands of climate and possibly, we would not be here or at our level of technology.

Michigan has some stunning scenery, too.