Our temperature is hovering around freezing but we should warm into the mid 40s. But the latest winter storm is in the neighborhood and we might get anything from clouds to a bit of snow depending on where it actually goes. I hope it stays well south and we get nothing more than clouds.

David Kaiser has a good post on television and our current political situation. His piece reminds me too painfully of three books I am slowly working my way through: Amusing Our Selves To Death, The Revolt of the Elites, and The Image. The last two I read two or three decades ago but they are worth a revisit. The third I only found recently. The trends the authors saw way back then are coming ripe and bearing terrifying fruit.