Lunchtime round-up

As was obvious when I left Spiteful, the Seattle Seahawks won the Super Bowl over the New England Patriots by 29-13.

Meanwhile:

• As the OAFPOTUS becomes more unhinged and more insulated from objective reality, he's heading for a massive crash-out. Of course, that means things will get worse before they get better.
• Both Leonora Barclay and Brian Beutler take the occasion of former Vice President Kamala Harris's "cringe-worthy" outreach to remind us why she lost.
• Anne Applebaum raises the alarm about the numbers of Ukrainian civilians dying as Russia continues to destroy its own economy in hopes of destroying Ukraine. And with Steve Witkoff negotiating deals on his own, "[i]t’s also corruption on a scale we have never seen before in American history."
• Record-breaking wind surges in the Western Pacific have climatologists worried about an epic El Niño this summer.

Finally, I am happy to report that the temperature at Inner Drive Technology World HQ poked above freezing just a few hours ago and looks like it might stay there until tomorrow night. In fact, the entire forecast as far as the National Weather Service cares to predict shows above-freezing high temperatures all week—and even above-freezing low temperatures a couple of times. So does the commercial forecast. Spring officially starts in 19 days!