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■ … and in his last podcast as mayor, Emanuel’s interview subject is (surprise!) himself. (2010 photo: Daniel X. O'Neil.) ■ WBEZ analyzes gun violence in Chicago and finds not much has changed on Emanuel’s watch—except where it’s happening. ■ From the archives: My Year of Rahm.
‘Abolish the priesthood.’ In The Atlantic’s new cover story, author James Carroll concludes that, to save the Church, Catholics should throw off the yoke of the clerical hierarchy and take the faith back into their own hands. ■ A law firm’s investigation concludes that an Ohio State athletic team doctor sexually abused at least 177 men in at least 16 sports—and that school leaders knew as it was happening. ■BuzzFeed News: Self-help guru Tony Robbins has allegedly been helping himself to inappropriate sexual advances.
Make that ‘climate emergency.’The Guardian is making a style change—eschewing climate change for climate emergency, crisis or breakdown; and global warming for global heating. ■Mother Jones: Where Democratic presidential candidates stand on the climate.
■ … a plan assembled in part by presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner—whom Stephen Colbert mocked last night: “Really? Jared Kushner is really calling for an end to giving people special treatment because of their relatives? You don’t want to rethink that?” (Cartoon: Keith Taylor.) ■ A former editor of The Onion regrets turning Joe Biden into a joke: “We let him off easy.”
R.I.P., Grumpy Cat. One of the internet’s most famous felines is no more. ■ Her trademark frown was a side-effect of feline dwarfism and an underbite. (2014 photo: Gage Skidmore.) Thanks … ■ … to reader Dave Aron for catching the mistake in the Ricketts item above. ■ … to reader Pam Spiegel for spotting a vestigial preposition in the Trump item above.
