For folks in NYC and other regions blanketed by smoke and living against an unfamiliar backdrop, welcome to the club. I'm a member. So are my kids. It's hard to remember everything that happened in 2020, the year that wouldn't end, but climate events are like presidential politics. You can't unsee the orange. Nine months into the pandemic year, we had learned to expect the unexpected. But no one in the Bay Area expected what we saw in the middle of the day on September 9. Orange skies. After another dry summer of record heat, California was burning. For me, the ravaging fires and rolling blackouts seemed as novel as the coronavirus and provided a bleak reminder that the pandemic was merely a preview of what would be a much longer and infinitely more daunting challenge presented by the slow but consistent roll of climate change. For my kids, who had missed school for fires, floods, power outages, and a pandemic, this was all too normal. To them, warnings to stay indoors, soot in the air, a thickening layer of ash on the hoods of our cars parked fifty miles from the nearest flames, days without electricity, and the stench of smoke so thick it could wake you up in the middle of the night just meant fall was in the air. 2Licht Wounds"The piece hit hard. It documented how Licht’s decision-making was misguided, seeming to lack a moral core of journalistic mission, despite the lip service paid to the importance of reporting. And it showed his disconnect with the editorial staff; he was both distant, with an office far from the journalists, and intrusive, making radical personnel moves that played out poorly and engendered an atmosphere of fear and mistrust." But as Margaret Sullivan explains, Chris Licht could have survived all that an more at CNN if it weren't for one thing. Ratings. The CNN chief messed up in many ways. Only one of them was fatal. Well, ratings and the related revenue issues. CNN’s Ad Revenue Down Nearly 40%. I know everyone positions CNN's woes as being part of the political divide and the cable news outrage wars. But, here's a crazy idea for how CNN could save itself with one dramatic and almost unthinkable change. Start actually reporting news again. 3Counter Points"They have to convince the Russian elite that the war was a mistake and that Russia can’t win it, not in the short term and not in the long term, either. Toward this end, they are also seeking to convince ordinary Russians that they aren’t as safe as they thought, that the war is nearer to their own homes than they believed, and that President Vladimir Putin isn’t as wise as they imagined. And the Ukrainians have to do all of this without a full-scale invasion of Russia, without occupying Moscow, and without a spectacular Russian surrender in Red Square." Anne Applebaum in The Atlantic (Gift Article): Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Has Begun. Its Goals Are Not Merely Military. 4Cheech and Wrong"Judge Ebony Scott ruled late Monday that while Josefa Ippolito-Shepherd could not prove she is entitled to damages, she successfully made the case that the smell is a private nuisance, and Scott ordered Thomas Cackett to stop smoking." WaPo (Free Article): Bothered by pot smell, she sued her neighbor to stop smoking — and won. "Cackett testified in court that the medical marijuana relieves his pain and helps him sleep after physically intensive shifts as a restaurant manager. He said that he smoked about 'eight to 12 puffs' at night after he gets off work, typically outside if the weather was tolerable, and he denied smoking 'all day and all night as the plaintiff alleges.' 'I am not Snoop Dogg.'" (He's says that like it's a good thing.) 5Extra, ExtraShock and Draw: "The opinion was unexpected. On two previous occasions, the conservative court has acted to gut provisions of the Voting Rights Act, leaving the once-hailed milestone legislation now a hollowed-out shell. But this decision appears to have left redistricting's last remaining guardrail intact, unlike the other provisions that have been struck down or neutered." Supreme Court unexpectedly upholds provision prohibiting racial gerrymandering. 6Bottom of the News"Spending all night slicing and dicing and flipping to applause, then reemerging into a world that values you only for your ability to conform to its preconceptions. Perhaps you think of yourself mainly in terms of how well you live up to others’ expectations, even if you never agreed to them, and fret about performing that role. Perhaps there’s barely room to think of what else you could — or want to — offer. Anyway, there is no show good enough to earn you acceptance. But still, you hope." My Benihana, Myself. I find that even being a customer at Benihana takes an emotional toll. The first time is fine. But then every other time you, you're under pressure to show enthusiasm for the same exact show you've seen many times. I feel like I'm the one performing. (Except when it comes to the onion volcano. Then my enthusiasm is really every time.) Get a copy of my 📕, Please Scream Inside Your Heart, or grab a 👕 in the Store.
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