Sunny again and cool. The wind has cooled things down even more. We had some rain overnight. We turned off the mainstream news mid-morning because they were following the Georgia testimony live. Before that it wasn't bad. Stories included the hearing on the hush money case where the judge has set the next hearing to start jury selection for March 25, I think. Special Prosecutor Jack Smith threw Trump's lawyers a fast ball by submitting the response to their Supreme Court filing to which the Court demanded a response by next Tuesday. Smith has asked the court to deny Trump's request to stay the appellate court's denial of his claim of total immunity until some future time when he gets together his request for certiorari. Smith asked that they uphold the lower court's decision ZnZd failing that, if they feel they must weigh in, to do so expeditiously. The reporters speculated that a final judgement will come in Trump's civil fraud case tomorrow. An interesting snippet came out of the coverage of the Kansas City shooting: we have had 49 mass shootings (where four or more people are shot including the shooter) this year. That is more days than we have had already this year.

Watching an interesting discussion on the Weather Channel about the possibility of adding a category 6 to the hurricane rating system. They have made some good reasons to not do that. The reporters noted that the category ratings don't give location and condition information. The high category story might cause less damage depending on those factors. They also are worried that people might downgrade a category 5 by thinking that at least it isn't a 5. People already dismiss the danger of a low level (category 1 or 2) even though if those storm can cause extensive damage. It is an interesting question especially since they also question even having a category system at all. It might be a good idea to start looking at warnings that consider factors beyond wind speed.

MSNBC still has that damned Georgia hearing on Willis all the damned day. Excuse me while I yell---I DON'T GIVE A GOOD GOD DAMN!!!!! It isn't worth all of the time they have wasted. Their reporters could have supplied a perfectly good thumbnail summary.