The Daily Parker

Winter ends two weeks from tomorrow, but climate science and meteorology can only study nature, not command it. That explains why, despite ample sunshine, the temperature at IDTWHQ has stayed around -7°C since it leveled out this morning, and promises to shed another 8-10 degrees tonight. Then we're in for a few blasts of cold interspersed with warm days and some snow here and there for about a week before it consistently warms up.

Elsewhere in the cold, cold world:

• The Senate confirmed the unqualified and probably demented Robert F Kennedy, Jr., as HHS Secretary on a 52-48 vote, with Mitch McConnell (R-KY) crossing the aisle to vote against him.
• In yet another Orwellian display of up-is-downism, Elon Musk and his army of crybabies have started labeling ordinary journalism as "doxxing."
• Josh Marshall says the OAFPOTUS used his order to pause the corruption prosecution of New York mayor Eric Adams to essentially become the unelected mayor of New York—at least until everyone ordered to file the motion to do so has quit.
• Michael Tomasky urges Democrats to hit "economics, culture, and media" in order to take back the legislature next year. Trissie McMillan Cottom agrees.
• A jury convicted former Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan (D-Chicago) of 10 counts of corruption but acquitted him or deadlocked on about half of the charges. (Who says only Illinois governors get all the fun of public corruption?)

Finally, Google has suspended comments on the label "Gulf of America" because of all the one-star reviews people gave the body of water. I realize Google just follows the USGS on American place names (same as Weather Now), but still, they could have slow-walked it (as Weather Now is doing).