Well, the Great Storm of 2014 has ended in my part of California, though not elsewhere, and we can put away the pots used to catch drops from a couple of leaks. I’m glad blogging wasn’t interrupted, though I did lapse into an unscheduled nap right before posting Day’s End.
In any event, our fundraising drive will continue (though as I’ve been reminded to mention, if all regular readers chipped in a buck we could stop right now), with some more diverse voices beyond mind. If you’d like to get ahead of the curve, please donate whatever you can afford today. Thanks!
Here are some only slightly soggy news/views items:
* Doesn’t help the aroma surrounding the Cromnibus that Jamie Dixon was whipping Members before the vote.
* But Kevin Drum reports Democrats got some tangible benefits from Cromnibus, even if they aren’t much explaining it.
* Michele Bachmann got right into the spirit of the season at the White House Christmas Party, using rare face-time with Obama to advise bombing Iran.
* Danny Vinik (or at least the headline of a Danny Vinik article) suggests without specific evidence that Elizabeth Warren may have decided to run for president.
* At the Prospect, Sarah Mehta explains Obama’s executive order doesn’t eliminate border patrol enforcement discretion entirely.
And in non-political news:
* Pope Francis appears to contradict his predecessor by suggesting animals can go to heaven.
As we break for lunch, here’s another Blue Eyes classic from In the Wee Small Hours: “I Get Along Without You Very Well.”
