Stuff I put off reading because of the holidays

I was a bit overloaded yesterday, so I didn't have time to absorb these articles thoroughly:

• The Atlantic's CityLab blog wants an end to horrible license plates.
• Krugman is weary of financial commentators who can't learn what the zero-lower-bound means.
• Want some real excitement? The IRS has raised standard mileage rates for 2015. I know: shut the front door!
• Illinois Climatologist Jim Angel says we have almost no chance of a white Christmas this year. I say, fine.

Even though I thought the 10 km walk Parker and I took two weeks ago was going to be our last really long one of the year, I didn't predict today's 9°C temperature forecast, so off we go on another one.