Now everyone in this class are officially bloggers. As you know by now, the trick to good blogging is an informal, casual writing style that makes draws people to your writing and wants them to hear what you have to say. By the end of the semester, all of you should post at least three blogposts on any topic of your choosing. To get started, everyone should writing something by next week's class.
I am currently writing with the distraction of Wednesday's heavy raindrops on my window in SMPA thinking about whether weather extremes are simply going to become commonplace. Scientists insist that it is foolish to cite the latest big snow storm, or unseasonably warm temperatures and heavy rains as evidence of climate change. They argue that global warming is a long term, gradual phenomenon unrelated to any specific weather event. But I am skeptical. The storms roaring across the Midwest today are a good example. They seem out of season, and unusually intense and threatening.
There is a heavy, unemotional resignation for the predicted outcome of Tuesday elections settling in. No one seems excited or particularly upset by the likely takeover of the House by the Republicans and the implied rejection of President Obama's policies. Maybe it's just like the changing of the seasons in Washington. Ho hum, the Republicans are coming. They have been here before. I compare that to the tidal wave of celebration that followed Obama's election and inauguration. Thousands of students from GW and elsewhere crowded on to the National Mall to watch Obama's swearing in on the big screens. Now, there seems no concern that he has lost his mo jo just two years later.
Mike Shanahan
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