Events

In his latest post, satirist Jeff Maurer argues that the Democrats in Congress walked into a trap "genitals first" when the OAFPOTUS "invited" Congress to stand in support of a fairly basic premise of national sovereignty. (My representative, Mike Quigley, skipped the speech.) The OAFPOTUS counted on the Democrats remaining seated, and he was right. As Maurer says,

I did promise reactions to the unrelenting stream of bullshit we all heard last night, so let's go:

I eagerly await James Fallows' take on last night's clown-car-hits-dumpster-fire, and I'm holding off my "SOTU reax roundup" post until I can include his. It turns out, the world didn't stop for two hours yesterday:

(I'm watching PBS News coverage on YouTube and keeping an eye on NPR's real-time fact check. All times Eastern US.)

Since I had some time to kill before the OAFPOTUS's State of the Union address, I released a few bug fixes for Weather Now. And then I released some bug fixes for . Let's hope everything is more stable, yes?

I've just published a new release of Weather Now. This corrected a couple of bugs that have lingered for awhile, and also added Google sign-ins!

Today will be busy, so rather than keeping a bunch of browser windows open, I'm spiking them here:

Only five days ago O'Hare hit 17°C after the mean temperature rose steadily for four weeks. Just when we thought spring was a possibility, things shifted. Friday's high temperature was lower than Wednesday's low, and last night it ]bottomed out at -8°C, 25°C (45°F) colder than Wednesday's high.

James Fallows wrote speeches for President Carter and has been a political journalist since leaving politics. He has five tips for watching Tuesday's speech, which I will be doing so you don't have to:

In the past two weeks, two Brews & Choos Project breweries have closed or announced their closings: Short Fuse closed on Monday, and Illuminated Brew Works announced yesterday that they would close this coming June. Another brewery my Brews & Choos buddy and I visited (but was too far from public transit to make the list), Alarmist, closed January 31st.