PAUL CHRISTENSEN

A bitterly cold day today, with the window panes looking like some Currier & Ives dinnerplate. An arctic blast rolled across the entire country, dropping Mediterranean-size bodies of frozen water on the Midwest before tumbling up to the north to land on Buffalo, where some thirty-plus souls lost their lives stranded on highways and in six-foot snow-drifts. That blew out the power in parts of the northeast and for the past few days, including Christmas Eve and morning with dar

Somebody must have told the media moguls that America can’t get enough of bad news to satisfy their thirst for horror or need to feel pity for the less fortunate. That’s all you hear, from Fox News to PBS, a dirge of misery and hopelessness for those afflicted with Russian missiles, viral plagues, famines in Africa, the plight of the Tigrayans, the pitiful state of the displaced in Syria, bankruptcy in Lebanon You name it, there’s hurt there. Every dark corner is lurking with

Okay, I went to bed with the results of the Georgia midterms’ run-off still wide open. Figured it will take the counters another twelve hours or more to get a tally that the Repubs can’t take to court and hold up for months. But it didn’t soothe me to lie there in my squirrel cage of a bed wondering what sort of numbers were ticking up or down. Brian Kemp, Georgia’s re-elected governor, went to bat for poor Hershel Walker, but even he couldn’t quite make himself believable, e