Arguably, there's been one good side effect of the chaos in Cairo and the horrible blizzard. Had it been the kind of slow news week you'd normally get in the early February dead of winter, your TV set might have been overrun with a cavalcade of stars from the presidency of Ronald Reagan as well as assorted friends and family. (I mean, it's not like Peggy Noonan and Pat Buchanan would get airtime otherwise :-) If you haven't been paying close attention, and no one will blame you, this Sunday would have been the 100th birthday of the Gipper, and an American right wing that's been lobbying for the last 15 years to build a continuous Ronald Reagan Boulevard from gated exurb to shining gated exurb will take a break to throw itself a big party.
Here's some details from the New York Times: