First snow in Chicago

I'm looking out my office window at the light dusting of snow on my neighbors' cars, wondering how (or whether) I'll get my 10,000 steps today. My commute to work got me 3,000 each way, making the job tons easier before lockdown. Easier psychologically, anyway; nothing prevents me from going for a 45-minute walk except that I really don't want to.

Instead of a lunchtime hike, I'll probably just read these articles:

• Palm Beach, Fla., has notified the STBXPOTUS that because he agreed in the 1990s not to use Mar-a-Lago as a residence in exchange for making it a private club, the city doesn't want him to live there after January 20th.
• The BBC explains the remaining sticking points between the UK and the EU that may cause the former to crash out of the latter without a treaty in two weeks.
• Some NIMBYs in the city of Naperville, Ill., have objected to a proposal to turn an abandoned corporate park into 241 homes because it would give the area "the density of a city of Chicago neighborhood that doesn't match the suburban environment we have." Read: those people might move in. (The article notes in passing that the quoted NIMBY doesn't actually live in the City of Naperville.)
• The toxic combination of castes, local-government authoritarianism, and crushing poverty led India in May to run special trains to get migrant workers home that wound up spreading Covid-19 all over the country.
• The Atlantic's Adrienne LaFrance believes "Facebook is a Doomsday Machine."

And just as a side note for posterity, we should remember that the President of Russia congratulated Joe Biden on his win before the Majority Leader of the US Senate did. The Republican Party must really not like democracy.