INDEED IT DOES: Hillary Clinton’s Email Scandal Keeps Getting Worse.

BYRON YORK: What’s Up With Trump In New Hampshire?

After that conversation, I began to ask everyone I met: Do you know anyone who supports Donald Trump? In more cases than not — actually, in nearly all the cases — the answer was no. I asked one woman Friday night, and she said she hadn’t thought about it. I ran into her the next morning at breakfast, and she said, “That was a good question you asked me last night, and I’ve given it some thought.” And no, she didn’t know any Trump supporters.

Given Trump’s big lead in the polls, if so many politically active Republicans don’t know even one Trump supporter, either the polls are wrong or there is some serious GOP Pauline Kaelism at work in the nation’s first primary state.

An exception: I talked to two party officials, one county and one regional, who said they knew a lot of Trump supporters. “They’re not Republicans,” one told me, explaining at length that the Trump fans she knows are inexplicably devoted to him — unfazed by Trump’s lack of policy specifics or any of his controversial statements. The two officials described having conversations and asking which candidate a voter supports, whereupon the voter quickly glanced left and right, to see if it was OK to talk, and then said, “Trump.” That happens a lot, they told me. . . .

I talked to a Republican political operative who has done a lot of work in New Hampshire. He has done so much work, in fact, that he knows many of the streets throughout the state by heart, and knows which houses display candidates’ political signs at primary time and which don’t.

He described driving down a street on the west side of Manchester, checking out the houses. He noticed Trump signs in front of houses that he knew had never displayed signs before. Seeing that, he began to think that all the talk about Trump appealing to a different kind of voter might be true.

So he’s either a big bag of media hype, or he’s already won.

BABY FED ALMOND MILK winds up with scurvy.

It’s like the return of rickets because of parents who keep their kids away from sun and dairy. You’d be better off following your grandmother’s advice.

CAN THE GOVERNMENT DO ANYTHING RIGHT? Washington, D.C., snowfall total called into question after improper measurement.

FERMI’S ANSWER: The Aliens Are Extinct.

IT’S POTEMKIN POLITICS ALL THE WAY DOWN: Groups Decrying ‘Dark Money’ Use Shadowy Money Themselves: At least 21 politically active groups who purport to hate “dark money” failed to fully disclose own funders.

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AN INSTAPUNDIT READER POLL:

UPDATE: So here we are after about an hour and a half:

That’s pretty consistent, as here’s where we were after about 10 minutes:

And, by way of comparison, here are the results from a post-debate poll in August:

GALLERY: Forgotten Fiberglass Sports Cars of the 1950s and 1960s. (Via Iowahawk on Twitter).

THESE SHOWS WERE A BIG DEAL IN THE 1980S AND 1990S. I watched 5 — 5! — of the Sunday morning shows and ended up with not one thing I wanted to blog. “It was all crushingly dull. The pundits really don’t seem to have anything more to say.”

I think the demise of the Sunday shows really started when the Monica Lewinsky story came out, and Sam Donaldson said that if it was true, Bill Clinton would have to resign. And that was huge, except that it was true, and Bill Clinton didn’t resign, and people realized that what gets said on these shows didn’t actually influence much.

MARC RANDAZZA ON TRADEMARKS AND POLITICAL CORRECTNESS: Freedom of Expression and Morality Based Impediments to the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights.

WHY FRATERNITIES THROW PARTIES AND SORORITIES DON’T. “A common urban legend contends that the rule was necessitated by old laws that defined dozens of women living and drinking under one roof as a brothel. The real reason is more practical: It’s way, way cheaper to insure dry sororities.”

I think the real reason is social norms in which men are expected to provide resources while women are expected to look pretty.

WHEN DO WE START OUR OWN DYSON SWARM? Remember that weird star KIC 8462852? Yeah, it’s probably aliens.

CHANGE: Apple, Google making progress on car projects.

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NEWS YOU CAN USE: Here’s why we’re attracted to people of a similar height, scientists say.

STUDY: No Fitness Benefit From Gluten-Free Diets.

COLD-WEATHER ESSENTIALS: So I bought a neck gaiter the other day on impulse, and it’s awesome. Better (though less stylish) than a scarf, because it doesn’t tend to come undone. Why didn’t I get one of these sooner?

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: As Zika virus spreads, El Salvador asks women not to get pregnant until 2018.

Related: Three In New York Test Positive For Zika Virus.

OUT OF THE CLOSET AT LAST, BUT WAS HE EVER REALLY IN? Lee Siegel Courageously Speaks Up For Everyone Lacking A Sense Of Humor.

ONCE AGAIN*, LIFE IMITATES GERRY ANDERSON’S JOURNEY TO THE FAR SIDE OF THE SUN: Filmmaker replaces eyeball with camera, just as the mysterious totalitarian eastern nation did to Herbert Lom, before they dispatched him to spy on the European Space Exploration Council in British sci-fi impresario Gerry Anderson’s cheesy but highly watchable 1969 movie.

* Airbus’s recent proposal to speed up airplane departures via removable mobile cabins is also straight out of Anderson’s film.

SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST.

Shot:

But it does not take a scientist to size up the effects of snowless winters on the children too young to remember the record-setting blizzards of 1996. For them, the pleasures of sledding and snowball fights are as out-of-date as hoop-rolling, and the delight of a snow day off from school is unknown.

‘I bought a sled in ’96 for my daughter,” said Dr. Michael Oppenheimer, a scientist at the nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund. ”It’s been sitting in the stairwell, and hasn’t been used. I used to go sledding all the time. It’s one of my most vivid and pleasant memories as a kid, hauling the sled out to Cunningham Park in Queens.”

Marcella Durand, 32, a poet at the St. Marks Poetry Project in the East Village, remembers burrowing through tunnels and building igloos and snowmen in a snow-buried TriBeCa. ”I really miss the snow,” she said. ”I miss the peace. I miss looking out the windows onto streets with snow falling around the lights, like a special halo. It brought a little bit of peace to the city. It’s the only thing that seems to quiet the city down.”

—“Winter in New York: Something’s Missing; Absence of Snow Upsets Rhythms Of Urban Life and Natural World,” the New York Times, January 15, 2000.

Chaser:

The 26.6 inches of snow that fell in Central Park on Saturday is a one-day record for New York City.

The National Weather Service says the overall accumulation — 26.8 inches — is the second-most for a single storm in city history.

Meteorologist Faye Barthold says all but two-tenths of an inch of the city’s accumulation fell on Saturday, surpassing the previous one-day mark of 24.1 inches on Feb. 12, 2006.

Officials say the total of 26.8 inches that fell in Central Park during the storm is the second-most since officials began keeping snowfall records in 1869. That narrowly misses tying the previous record of 26.9 inches from February 2006.

Snow stopped falling in New York City shortly after 10 p.m. Saturday.

A travel ban keeping non-emergency workers off the roads was lifted early Sunday. Transit officials expect a gradual return of service.

At least 18 deaths have been blamed on the weather.

—The Associated Press, today.

(Headline via the London Independent in 2000.)

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Just remember, the snow in New York, like the record cold in China right now, is just weather, not climate. It’s only climate when it’s hot. And Fallen Angels is just a science fiction novel.

I AM AFRAID WE ARE OUT OF BADGERS. WOULD YOU ACCEPT A WOLVERINE IN ITS PLACE? ‘A worm fell into my mouth. I gagged’: my life as a badger.

TRUMP SPOKESWOMAN HAS HISTORY OF BIZARRE, BIGOTED TWEETS.