The Associated Press

Cubs manager David Ross had to remind himself Monday night that Chicago was still two days away from opening the playoffs against the Miami Marlins. Game 1 of their best-of-three wild-card series is Wednesday at Wrigley Field. The Cubs won the NL Central at 34-26 in Ross' first season, reaching the playoffs for the fifth time in six years.Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Among the horrors that President Trump has inflicted on the nation and the world, one stands out in the mind of Thomas Friedman. Trump withdrew from the Paris Climate Accord. As it happened, this extra-constitutional piece of Obamaesque nonsense was not ratified by the United States Senate. It was enacted by executive fiat. No matter to Friedman. To his mind the greatest threat that the United States and the world faces is climate change. The United States counts as one of the greatest, if not the greatest cause of said climate change. The world is going to end, so says chicken little Friedman, unless we rejoin the Paris Climate Accord.

Over at the Manhattan Contrarian blog Francis Menton explains the stakes with exemplary clarity (via Maggie’s