Current events

News will happen while I’m away this week.  Hopefully, I won’t even know about it.  But something is bound to happen that begs for discussion.  If and when something happens, tell about it briefly in a comment, along with a link to the full story.  The rest of you, talk about it by hitting “reply” to that comment.  By the end of the week, we should have a compendium of the week’s news, along with the necessary commentary.  That will catch me up when I return to civilization, assuming it can last long enough to be here when I get back.