Here’s your roundup of the seven wildest stories from the past month. Let’s start with the blazing madness of a climate conference in Brazil and then look at six others.
1. COP chaos
It’s November, and that usually means the eco-loons are coming out of the woodwork. In recent years, the annual meeting of the Conference of the Parties, or COP, has taken place in November. This year’s COP30 was held in Brazil and attracted more than 56,000 delegates and business representatives from around the world. Yes, you made the connection – that’s a carbon footprint the size of a small city, flying around the world to protest… against the use of carbon.
It was much worse than that. First, there’s the huge highway they built across the Amazon to get to the conference, instead of doing it online. According to the BBC, this meant 13 kilometers of “a new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of hectares of protected Amazon rainforest.”
The highway had already been proposed in 2012, “but was repeatedly shelved due to environmental concerns.”
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Then the rooms at the event were so expensive that even some delegates did not dare to pay the costs. (And most didn’t pay for themselves.) So Brazil brought in two large cruise ships to accommodate poorer delegates. One of them advertised that it offers “11 restaurants, 12 bars, 3 pools and 8 hot tubs.” Life is tough to save Mother Earth. That’s not a climate event – it’s a group holiday for 56,000 people.
2. The less-than-stellar Mr. Burns
We’re talking about Ken Burns, sometime historian and all-around lefty. Burns is in the news for his new documentary series on the Revolutionary War. I leave checking the facts to real historians. I’m here to mock Burns for his elitist view of rural America. Burns was interviewed on Bulwark’s ‘How to Fix It’ podcast, and he decided to support his paymasters in previously public media.
According to Burns, defunding public media will harm us in non-blue America. “It will especially hurt rural communities – maybe that’s their intention. There will be news deserts.”
That’s right, people in rural America aren’t allowed to have things like the internet to find news. He sounds like he expects us to be upset because we can’t hear NPR while we sit in our outhouse and drink our moonshine.
Ken Burns speaks on stage during the New York premiere of PBS’ “The American Revolution,” starring Ken Burns and Tom Hanks, during the 2025 Atlantic Festival on September 18, 2025 in New York City. (Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)
Rural America barely notices public media. These outlets are designed for the upscale urban crowd that is over 90% liberal. A country boy can survive… without NPR’s always left-wing spin on the news.
3. A toast to the post
Things are changing in The Washington Post’s opinion section. In an effort to reach other voices, the newspaper launched a new section called Ripple. Depending on your age, that could mean what happens when you throw a pebble into a pond. Or it might conjure up images of the great Redd Foxx playing Fred Sanford in “Sanford and Son.” His drink of choice on the show was a fortified wine called Ripple. For oldies like me, you’re wondering if the other names they considered were Mad Dog, Night Train or Thunderbird.
Things are changing in The Washington Post’s opinion section. (Kevin Carter/Getty Images)
4. Farmers no longer dig it
Change, as we learned from President Barack Obama, is often not a good thing. That is the fate of the Farmer’s Almanac. The almanac buys the farm. No, not that almanac, the other one — or, as The Associated Press put it, “not to be confused with its older, longtime competitor, The Old Farmer’s Almanac in neighboring New Hampshire.”
Yet this Maine almanac has 208 years of experience, and AP says, “It is believed to be the oldest continuously published magazine in North America.”
The Maine State Capitol in Augusta. (eyecrave productions via Getty Images)
All of that ends in 2026 due to a “chaotic media environment.” The staff has nothing to be ashamed of. They outlived more than half of the newspapers I ever worked for. Chaotic, indeed.
5. On the farm
And while we’re on the farm, we talk about sheep, followed by cuddling goats. The Washington Post published an article about a farmer who saves gay sheep the memorable headline“I love your sweater. Is it made of cheerful sheep’s wool?”
According to the Post, “As many as one in twelve male sheep do not reproduce, but show an – ahem – interest in other rams.” So the farmer, whose sheep go by names like “Marvin Gay,” did “a fashion hookup with Grindr,” appropriately for the gay hookup site. Together they launched a fashion show “to promote Rainbow Wool.” The show’s title: “I Wool Survive.”
Not to be outdone, USA Today marked Thanksgiving by writing about “turkey cuddle therapy.” “Turkey cuddling in particular,” we are told, “can be profound.” But don’t dare touch a turkey without its permission. “All interactions between guests and animals are on the animals’ terms — in other words, the turkey must choose me,” the author wrote.
Let me tell you, I snacked on some turkey on Thanksgiving, along with mashed potatoes, stuffing, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie.
A Thanksgiving dinner with boiled turkey and more. (iStock)
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6. House hatred
The media bombards us with well-deserved complaints about how expensive life is for most Americans and how difficult it is to buy a house. Leave it to the left-wing Vox to zigzag while the whole world zigzags. Vox published a piece in November headlined, “Why owning a house is overrated.”
Yes, building equity and having a place you can fix up and call home – what craziness. What followed was an interview with Jerusalem Demsas, editor-in-chief of The Argument, who states: “Homeownership is overrated.” Now, I agree that homes don’t always increase in value, but speaking out against the American Dream is uniquely liberal.
Yes, homes don’t always increase in value, but standing up for the American Dream is uniquely liberal.
7. Hunka Hunka Burnin’… Law
Films with opinionated judges are fairer than we like to admit. A Missouri judge loses his job for wearing an Elvis wig and playing ‘The King’ during trials.
Judge Matthew Thornhill of St. Louis “is facing a six-month unpaid suspension under the deal he struck with the state,” according to AP. He will then be given another 18 months on the bench before resigning, possibly to go on tour. (People magazine even had photos of him as Elvis.)
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The Commission on Retirement, Removal and Discipline went after his love for the “King of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” noting how he posed “with staff in a plastic Elvis wig and sunglasses” and sang from the couch.
(St. Louis Judge Matthew Thornhill.)
The Elvis-is-everywhere schtick is said to have violated rules on ‘order and decorum’, despite 35 letters supporting the judge’s character. So the judge was judged and found wanting.
On the plus side, he may have the makings of a “My Cousin Vinny” sequel.
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