On Thursday—day seven for some parents with a three-day weekend ahead and more snow in the offing—nerves were beginning to fray.

“I am about ready to eat my children,” said one mom, who declined to be named.

-Solomon, Wall Street Journal, 2/11

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With no cable - a casualty of snowmaggedon - all options are on the table tonight, public scorn be damned.

The sporting life

Prediction: At some point in tonight’s season-debut of “Lost,” we’ll hear the line:

[spoiler]: Now arriving, Gate 23, Oceanic 815

Can I get odds on this?

Cultural catch-all