- Congratulations on making it through the “saddest day of the year,” i.e. Blue Monday, i.e. the second or third Monday in a new year that one psychologist claimed a decade ago was the statistically most depressing day of the year, but there's actually no science behind this. [ABC 7]
- A few hundred people lost power overnight because of the storm. [KRON 4]
- And another storm system is on its way in early Tuesday, which could make the Tuesday morning commute messy. [SF Gate]
- In addition to the news that there won't be any Pliny the Younger during Beer Week at Toronado or elsewhere, Toronado announced they're canceling what would be the 21st annual Barleywine Festival, which traditionally closed out the week. They say peoples' changing tastes for bitter beer, and the sheer number of Beer Week events, are to blame. [Hoodline via Beer Geek]
- Back in the day, "Twitter talked some big talk [about free speech], but it has buckled under both lawsuits and media outrage, tweaking and changing the Rules around speech whenever something threatened its bottom line." [Motherboard]
- More detail about the spectacular collapse of wine merchant Premier Cru in Berkeley, and the sometimes shady world of wine futures. [Chron]
- A 60-year-old trans female inmate in San Diego, serving time for murder, is dropping her lawsuit against the state of California in anticipation of getting her state-funded sexual reassignment surgery. [CBS 5]
