Winter Olympics: Warming to America’s Game and beyond

I know how galling this all must be, hearing about the big North American freeze and the tremors of polar madness it’s firing across the ocean to stir things up around your way.

If you never see another Instagram photo or Facebook update of a weather phone app showing you just how insanely cold it is in Boston or Chicago, you won’t be sorry. It’s winter, they should all get over themselves.

In spite of all the ludicrous news reports hurried out over the last few days by local crews who can’t blink for fear of never being able to see their loved ones again, comparing soft snow to crunchy snow and telling the camera that it feels like minus 40, whatever that means, I never tire of talking about the cold.