Winter Storm Nemo is bearing down on us and everything is shut down up here in the Northeast. No classes and no office hours!

Here’s the quick snow edition:

• Why are we now naming winter storms?
• Canadians dissing on Toronto.
• Moscow has received its heaviest snow in a century.  With pictures.
• I used to do this on really cold snow days growing up in North Dakota — blow soap bubbles and watch them freeze and shatter.  (There really was nothing else to do at -20 degrees in North Dakota)

And, the rest of the roundup:

• The New York Times and the Washington Post broke the story and Wired found the images of drone bases in Saudi Arabia using Bing Maps.
• Despite all the rhetoric and bluster, Brennan came through yesterday’s hearings largely unscathed. More here on drone links.
• Jon Stewart helps us understand the meanings of “imminence” and “a broader concept of imminence.”
• If there’s money to be made with this new drone technology, gotta bet that college and university administrators will find a way….  
• Shocking news.  Chuck Hagel might find his nomination stymied on flimsy grounds.
• Somalia revisited?  The French want to turn Mali over to the United Nations.
• UN Report on bribery in Afghanistan last year.  Bribes spent in Afghanistan totaled twice the amount of national revenues.  Probably not good.