Egregiously bad parenting
Police arrested Jennifer and James Crumbley at a commercial building in Detroit today after a day-long manhunt. They're the parents of the kid who killed four of his high school classmates last week,...
View ArticleCoding on a winter afternoon
I've finally resumed progress on a major update to Weather Now. I finished everything except the user interface way back in April, but between summer, Cassie, and everything else, I paused.At least,...
View Article"Ghost guns" aren't the problem—guns are
LTU history professor Andrew C McKevitt explains how gun capitalism fuels our gun crisis, not "ghost guns" (or "Saturday Night Specials" or mail-order guns or...):Ghost guns are the latest iteration of...
View ArticleReally December now
I'm looking ahead to two long rehearsals, three performances, and squeezing into my tuxedo, all while the temperature drops over the next six hours to a predicted -9°C. I conclude from these facts that...
View ArticleCome on, Xfinity
I've had intermittent Internet all morning for no reason that Comcast/Xfinity can tell me. Everything I do professionally requires an Internet connection.I am displeased.
View ArticleYour evening reading
Just a few:What is Putin's real game with Ukraine right now? Julia Ioffe thinks it may just be R-E-S-P-E-C-T.After Bob Dole's death this week, Paul Krugman bemoans the disappearance of Republican...
View ArticleDaring rescue attempt in Buffalo
Via reporter Stephen Watson, the US Coast Guard attempted a daring rescue from a car stuck less than 100 meters from the American Falls in the Niagara River—which unfortunately became a daring...
View ArticleWhile I pondered, weak and weary...
Today's litany of disappointments, with a couple of bright spots:First-term US Representative Peter Meijer (R-MI) has not enjoyed the fallout from taking principled votes his first month in...
View ArticleTragedy and farce
We're all set to perform Handel's Messiah tomorrow and Sunday, which got noticed by both the local news service and local TV station. Otherwise, the week just keeps getting odder:Monkees...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Spot the warm front
My outdoor thermometer has alerted me to an unusual temperature swing:Yes, that's a 4°C rise in one hour. At least it's stopped raining. But there is a tornado warning about 100 km from here, so...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Backlog
I just started Sprint 52 in my day job, after working right up to the last possible minute yesterday to (unsuccessfully) finish one more story before ending Sprint 51. Then I went to a 3-hour movie...
View ArticleAnd now for something completely indifferent
I will now take a break from my ongoing struggles to make Blazorise play nicely with Open ID authentication so I can read these:Block Club Chicago, which has essentially taken over from the Chicago...
View ArticleAmbassador Emanuel
The US Senate has confirmed former Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel, who lives just a couple of blocks for me (for now), as the new US Ambassador to Japan:The Senate voted 48-to-21 to confirm Emanuel, with...
View ArticleYour year in weather disasters
The Washington Post breezes in with a month-by-month interactive feature:[E]vidence increasingly shows that historic heat waves, monster rain events and ultra-intense storms are exacerbated by the...
View ArticleDropped
I officially gave up on a couple of books this week, with mixed feelings about both. Both are massive biographies; both are considered outstanding examples of their craft; and both started putting me...
View ArticleClik here to view.
There are still 9 more Greek letters
SARS-Cov-2-omicron continues its march through the world, aided in part by a lack of tests that could detect and mitigate Covid infections early on. The Times reports that a Texas man died of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Another big, red map that should make you uncomfortable
Via The Washington Post, Climate Central reports that winters have gotten significantly warmer in the US, especially in the Great Lakes and Northeast regions:[W]inter in the United States is warming...
View ArticlePaved with good intentions
The City of Chicago added bike lanes to a busy section of Clark Street in the Edgewater community area, but so far, it doesn't have a lot of fans:The lane, on Clark Street between Hollywood Avenue and...
View ArticleInflated importance
The Times reported last night that the Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) price index had its highest rate of increase since 1982 in November, and yet they (and most other news outlets) completely...
View ArticleHome, home at Lagrange
The James Webb Space Telescope took off from French Guiana this morning at 6:20 CST:Ground teams began receiving telemetry data from Webb about five minutes after launch. The Arianespace Ariane 5...
View Article