Links for 12/17/15 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Tony summarizes the agreement well. Of course, there will be no disaster movie events as the climate unravels - it will be a slow evolution where it is people, rather than species, who are eradicated. Luckily, it is not waiting on world action - the agreement empowers individual nations to let their civil servants run lose implementing it - which is a force that is as hard to resist as capitalism. As for nation's helping their neighbors deal with warming, I will believe that when we start building hydroelectric dams in Mexico and Central America - without getting concessions first. The second part seems like it needs more in terms of world government, which the attempt may spur.
Ron does us a service in telling us which states are more important with time. Anyone claiming to know which candidate should exit when should know which states he might win first. Its not the cakewalk for Donald some would think. Its too early to start a general election between Trump and Clinton just yet. Of course, this implies nothing about the general election and the bad electoral vote math facing the GOP.
Bravo to Archbishop Kurtz and the USCCB staff who wrote his statement on the massacres in San Bernadino and Colorado Springs, including a denunciation of gun violence - which is a kick in the teeth that I hope some in the GOP feel particularly hard. I disagree with him on mental illness - not on not blaming the mentally ill (although the Colorado Springs shooter was certainly a nut case) - but on not having this be a priority, both for giving more aid to the mentally ill in terms of both living arrangements and care and in identifying people on the more scizophrenic side who should never own a fire arm, even if they have never been adjudicated as mentally ill.
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