Stormy Weather

We are in the midst of a polar vortex event, with life-threatening wind chills:




James, in Chicago, had a wind chill of -55 yesterday. In the evening, after it had warmed up a bit, he took an Uber to ORD (the freeways at 5 p.m.-ish were nearly empty) and flew to Miami where we picked him up.

It was 70 degrees here, so he gained 125 degrees of change over the course of the day.

As news of shutdowns (businesses, state and local governments, all schools in mid-Michigan, even MSU, and wait for it... a state of emergency declared by our governor) headlined state news, and the cold headlined national news, this tidbit emerged.

The governor of Kentucky (which is known in those parts as "the Commonwealth") announced that shutting everything down was going to "make kids soft".

The only thing soft is his brain. Mush. Of course, this is the state that has given us Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell (and, full disclosure, me. But that's totally unrelated. Totally.)

For proof, after Gov. Matt Blevin got thoroughly roasted (still working that temperature theme!) by a tweetstorm and by no less a personality than Al Roker, Blevin had to wield the mighty cudgel oft employed by that other idiot, the one in the Oval Office. Blevin's puny, wimpy, and totally small-minded (or, more accurately, no-minded) "defense" was tweeted out beginning at 9:50 p.m. Probably he was outdoors all day doing manly and very hard things while he was being castigated.

By a wimpy defense, I note that he 1) blames mainstream media "lemmings"  for misleading (though he stops short of using the "fake news" phrase), 2)  claims the press did nothing when Obama did the same thing, and 3) pivots to linking "infanticide" in NY and VA.

At the risk of losing readership (ha, ha) I'll repeat: Why bother trying to write fiction, when non-fiction presents in this manner?

Link to Obama statements

Bevin on the radio, the origin of this story, doubling down after he said he was being "only slightly facetious" in a broadcast news report (link to YouTube report):



The article from Lex 18 (NBC) (a link to this article which may disappear at some point) (sorry these screen grabs are a little fuzzy and hard on the eyes):



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