So much news in one short week, we cats can't react to it all. But here are a few stories that caught our attention.
Yes, we know that climate and weather are two different things, but on a November day in Washington when the temperature breaks records at 80 and the air conditioner is back on, we're glad that President Obama has squashed the Keystone XL Pipeline. We've never understood the allure of tar sands when there's so much money and so many jobs just waiting to be had in clean energy.
Meanwhile, Ben Carson is not having a great week. Sure, he's leading in some numbnut Republican polls and just got Secret Service protection — but now he's not just the butt of thousands of Egyptian pyramid jokes, his ain't-I-great autobiography is looking more and more like one big fib. It's just more proof that a person can be a pediatric neurosurgeon and separate conjoined twins at the head and still be a liar and a fool.
And after this morning's most excellent jobs report — and with the unemployment rate at 5.0, the lowest since since The Worst Person Who's Ever Lived was President — we sure hope that at the next debate, all those economic experts over at the Fox Business channel will ask the GOP clown car passengers why they should be back in charge.
Finally, if you even had a smidgen of hope that the Mormon church was evolving after its benign acceptance of the Supreme Court's ruling on marriage equality, guess again: They just did a total smackdown on any gay folks who have the gall to try to exist in LDS world. Still, it's at least a step up from those annoying religious nutcases who refuse to do their county clerk jobs or comply with the Affordable Care Act. Until America is able to make, execute and interpret sensible laws without whining and pressure from the "religious freedom" crowd, we cats will just have to keep HISSING. And so we do.
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