Short Take Politics
California burning on a winter day
Apologies to the Beach Boys. An area north of Los Angeles is on fire. Canada is helping. California is doing the best it can. There is nonsensical rhetoric and blame being spewed daily by the twice-impeached President-elect. Blame climate change and the Santa Ana winds. This fire is not as great as one that happened in the first MAGA administration, but hey, why quibble over details. https://www.cnn.com/weather/live-news/los-angeles-pacific-palisades-eaton-wildfires-01-08-25/index.html
Winter storms spread
Extreme weather keeps getting more extreme. The latest thing is snowstorms in places where it does not snow. Meanwhile in Niagara Falls, I have shoveled twice and not touched the snowblower. https://www.npr.org/2025/01/09/nx-s1-5251474/winter-snow-tips
Newsom disrupts MAGA water tale
Facts get in the way of a narrative, somehow with smelt in the middle. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/newsom-calls-trumps-claims-pure-fictio…