Game of the week
What else, but the Big Ten title game between Michigan State and Iowa. Iowa comes in with no losses, State with one. And the winner goes to the national college football playoffs. As much as I like Iowa, I like State more – 24 – 17.
Climate change and the extreme right
The political reality analyzed below by Paul Krugman still goes under appreciated by too many. I’m always amazed when commentators write about the existential threat of the climate crisis, but then have nothing or very little to say about the urgency of defeating right wing extremism in next year’s election. Krugman in the article below however tells us that its defeat isn’t a lower order task, but an absolutely necessary one if we’re going to save ourselves and the planet.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/04/opinion/republicans-climate-change-denial-denial.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region®ion=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Good: Hillary Clinton’s call for a federal investigation into the execution of Laquan McDonald.
The Bad: Republican Party presidential candidates offering their prayers to the families of the victims of the mass shooting in San Bernardino, while resisting any and all legislative efforts to curb gun violence.
The Ugly: The San Bernardino attack, the latest in a growing list of mass killings of innocent people here and abroad. In the words of today’s New York Times historic front-page editorial, “These spree killings are all, in their own way, acts of terrorism.”