The temperature at Inner Drive Technology WHQ just hit 17.5°C, which it hasn't hit since 5:54pm on November 5th. That's almost 125 days, quite a while to go without wearing a jacket outside.
Unfortunately, spring weather isn't the only thing in the news today:
- Philip Bump asks, how low can the OAFPOTUS's approval rating actually go?
- Paul Krugman decries our current "government by QAnon."
- Radley Balko lays out three things Democrats can do right now.
- Ezra Klein uses the example of California's high-speed rail failure to argue for a politics of abundance, not scarcity.
- Malware infecting WordPress sites installs four back doors, all of which should be closed immediately.
Finally, Metra is seeking public input on a plan to rename the heavy-rail lines around Chicago. Right now, each line has an historic name and a different color. The favored proposal would be to give each line a letter signifying the direction from downtown, plus a number. For example, the Union Pacific North line that goes by my house would be renamed N1. And all the lines departing from a single downtown station would get the same color (green in the case of the three UP lines). I think this is a good proposal, and would bring Chicago in line with international cities like Berlin and Paris.