As I try to do on occasion here on MattChat, I pulled together a list of some of the news highlights (or lowlights?) from last week.
Look at this stuff......
What a freakin' misguided and messed-up world that we live in.
- Paris attacked by ruthless savages
- Fed gonna do a rate hike in December.... maybe
- AB Inbev confirms SABMiller takeover deal
- Supreme Court gonna hear challenge to key parts of Texas abortion law
- continued mixed messages from another Republican debate
- resignations, tension, fear at University of Missouri......
- .....and those tensions are spreading to other college campuses
- Russian athletes accused of massive doping scandal
- 3-star Army general removed from top Pentagon post
- Chicago Cubs going to start own TV network
- unreleased Chicago police video has potential to lead to another Ferguson
- University of Illinois agrees on HUGE $$ tentative settlement for hiring, then not hiring, a professor
- absolute stupidity being raised over Starbucks cup design
- Trump stirs up crowd over in Springfield
- medical pot goes on sale in Illinois
- uterus transplants may soon help infertile U.S. women
- Obama announces major tuition assistance for U.S. veterans and their families
- Ben Carson endorses statehood for Puerto Rico
- pair of train derailments in two days in Wisconsin
- Veterans Affairs continues to pay performance-based bonuses to nearly half of their employees, despite continued agency incompetence
- Fed gonna do a rate hike in December.... maybe
- AB Inbev confirms SABMiller takeover deal
- Supreme Court gonna hear challenge to key parts of Texas abortion law
- continued mixed messages from another Republican debate
- resignations, tension, fear at University of Missouri......
- .....and those tensions are spreading to other college campuses
- Russian athletes accused of massive doping scandal
- 3-star Army general removed from top Pentagon post
- Chicago Cubs going to start own TV network
- unreleased Chicago police video has potential to lead to another Ferguson
- University of Illinois agrees on HUGE $$ tentative settlement for hiring, then not hiring, a professor
- absolute stupidity being raised over Starbucks cup design
- Trump stirs up crowd over in Springfield
- medical pot goes on sale in Illinois
- uterus transplants may soon help infertile U.S. women
- Obama announces major tuition assistance for U.S. veterans and their families
- Ben Carson endorses statehood for Puerto Rico
- pair of train derailments in two days in Wisconsin
- Veterans Affairs continues to pay performance-based bonuses to nearly half of their employees, despite continued agency incompetence
Yeesh, that's enough crazy for this week.
OK, I'll admit there are a few good things in that list.
I'll dwell on those.
Out for now.........
Matt