The moon is so close, it's affecting the tides in our glass of scotch:
- If the moon looks a little bit bigger and brighter this weekend, there's a reason for that. It is.
Saturday's full moon will be a super "perigee moon" -- the biggest in almost 20 years. This celestial event is far rarer than the famed blue moon, which happens once about every two-and-a-half years.
There was some study not too long ago that claimed the widely held belief that the mentally disturbed come out more during a full moon was unsupported by the facts. Maybe the crazies were just a little more crazy than usual, so it was just a different brand of nuttiness, but some of our favorite stories from the old timers involved a full moon.