Cuomo's Snow Day

Somewhere on the spectrum of political rhetoric, between the poetry of campaigns and the prose of governance, there is the art of the emergency-response announcement. On the occasion of the "mega-blizzard" that was alleged to be heading toward New York on Monday, Governor Andrew Cuomo offered a few lines packed with koan-like wisdom: "The sun will come out again, we just don't know when," he said. "It's dangerous to be out there now. It's going to get more dangerous." Mayor Bill de Blasio prefer...