Windy morning

It got a bit breezy this morning:

Speaking of blowhards:

• Democrat Scott Colom has won the US Senate seat in Mississippi, making him the first Black US Senator from that state since 1875.
• Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth personally awarded SPC Iglesias (first name not reported) the Joint Service Commendation Medal for reprimanding Hegseth's tour group at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier during yesterday's Armastice Day commemoration.
• Anne Applebaum asks, "how do we fix [democracy]?"
• Brian Beutler suggests a couple of ways we can start in January: don't waste time cutting bipartisan deals with Republicans, don't sideline accountability, but do send the OAFPOTUS popular legislation and dare him to veto it.
• While affordability was the most salient issue in the election, it turns out, gasoline is not that expensive in historic terms.
• James Fallows considers whether air travel is getting less safe, both on his blog and in the New York Times Magazine. (Hint: it's complicated.)
• Alexandra Petri snickers at former NVidia CEO Jensen Huang's apology, which "may be the only correct use of AI." Meanwhile, Jeff Maurer wonders whether China is "running a really half-assed honeypot operation" on him.

Finally, it's possible that Chicago may get something tonight it hasn't seen since March: snow. I probably won't see any up here on the North Side, but the forecast for the South Side and Northwest Indiana looks a bit frothy overnight. This happens every year, of course, on average by November 18th. Even in the bizzare winter of 2021, we eventually got snow at the end of December. (I did rather like the winter of 2012-13 when we didn't get our first 25 mm snowfall until January 25th, 335 days after the previous. Who knows, maybe El Niño will keep us snow-free through the end of the year?)