* The (Jan. 31) Grammy Awards have been postponed and the Sundance Film Festival has canceled its in-person festival because of the omicron variant.
* Apple’s market capitalization briefly hit $3 trillion for the first time.
* “Is A Civil War Ahead?”: a recent headline in The New Yorker.
* “In the present situation, the snake oil salesmen are not just Alex Jones, QAnon’s master manipulators and evangelical hucksters. They are senators, powerful white Christian men, prominent media figures, billionaires and their foundations, even a former president.”–Historian Rebecca Solnit, author of “Orwell’s Roses.”