Morning Jolt: Forget the Nicknames. It’s Cold and Snowy.

I concur with John Kelly - the columnist, not the White House chief of staff - in his exhaustion of special names for weather patterns.

These days, nothing can be normal. Now a full moon is a "supermoon." A cold snap is a "polar vortex." A snowstorm is a "bomb cyclone."

Really? A bomb cyclone? That doesn't even make sense. Shouldn't it be cyclone bomb?

Actually, it should be: "It's January. It's going to be cold. It may get windy. It may snow."

It's as if the weather suddenly hired a public-relations consultant: "We're really going to try to add drama and danger to your brand, to make people sit up and take notice and maybe want to hide under the bed when they hear your new, much more menacing name."

I'll make one exception for our cute-nickname purge: The 2011 "Carmageddon" in Washington D.C., ...

January 05 2018

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Forget the Nicknames. It's Cold and Snowy. Jim Geraghty I concur with John Kelly - the columnist, not the White House chief of staff - in his exhaustion of special names for weather patterns. These days, nothing can be normal. Now a full moon is a "supermoon." A cold snap is a "polar vortex." A snowstorm is a "bomb cyclone." Really? A bomb cyclone? That doesn't even make sense. Shouldn't it be cyclone bomb? Actually, it should be: "It's January. It's going to be cold. It may get windy. It may snow." It's as if the weather suddenly hired a public-relations consultant: "We're really going to try to add drama and danger to your brand, to make people sit up and take notice and maybe want to hide under the bed when they hear your new, much more menacing name." I'll make one exception for our cute-nickname purge: The 2011 "Carmageddon" in Washington D.C., ... READ MORE Manafort's Frivolous Civil Lawsuit against Mueller and the Justice Department Andrew C. McCarthy The first salvo fired by Paul Manafort's legal team at Special Counsel Robert Mueller's indictment against him and co-defendant Richard Gates is a frivolous civil lawsuit. Manafort's underlying... Getting Better All the Time, Here and around the World Kyle Smith Getting Better All the Time, Here and around the World ADVERTISEMENT DACA, DACA, Bo-Baca . . . Mark Krikorian President Trump met Thursday with Senate Republicans about a possible deal on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, President Obama's lawless pen-and-phone amnesty that gave... Paul Nehlen and Breitbart's Shameless Opportunism Theodore Kupfer December was shaping up to be a big month for Paul Nehlen, the Republican gadfly who is for a second straight cycle running to unseat House speaker Paul Ryan in Wisconsin's first congressional... Don't Dance on Bannon's Grave Yet Mona Charen President Trump's official statement about Steve Bannon — the lack of exclamation points makes it seem as if it may not be 100 percent his own words – is welcome. The president distanced himself... Fire and Fury Is Much Ado about Nothing New Jonah Goldberg There are plenty of shocking bombshells in Michael Wolff's new book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, but is there anything actually new? I haven't read it yet, but I have been... ADVERTISEMENT I Am Pilgrim: A Thriller Terry Hayes "Hayes delivers muscular prose, sniper-round accurate dialogue and enough superb and original plotting to fill three volumes. He balances it all with the dexterity of the accomplished storyteller that he so obviously is. I Am Pilgrim is simply one of the best suspense novels I've read in a long time." - David Baldacci, bestselling author LEARN MORE Northeast Blizzard Frozen Falls ADVERTISEMENT Follow Us & Share 19 West 44th Street, Suite 1701, New York, NY, 10036, USA Your Preferences | Unsubscribe | Privacy View this e-mail in your browser.