So Jerry Brown has signed a bill making California the first state to ban single-use plastic bags, especially for grocery stores. There’s been a local ban in place in Monterey for a while, but not elsewhere on the Peninsula, so ending the confusion will be nice, and set a good national precedent.
Here are some remains of the day:
* Now this is different: Occidental Petroleum the latest major corporation to sever ties with ALEC over its climate change positions.
* WaPo’s Aaron Blake interprets new CNN/ORC poll showing 69% of Republicans currently identify themselves as “hawks” as bad news for Rand Paul.
* With his usual nuanced rhetoric, Dr. Ben “One Nation” Carson says use of new AP history curriculum would make students “sign up for ISIS.”
* Greg Sargent argues that polls are showing not just general support for military action in the Middle East, but support for low-risk action.
* At TNR, Katie Zavadski predicts pharmacy will be the next profession to suffer from a glut of new graduates chasing fewer jobs.
And in sort of non-political news:
* Gates remains Fortune‘s richest American with net worth of $81 billion. But Koch Brothers trump him with combined $84 billion.
That’s it for Tuesday. We’ll close with one more T. Rex tune: “Children of the Revolution,” with Elton John and Ringo Starr sitting in. Some of you may remember this song as covered by the Violent Femmes a bit later.
Selah.
