DAN GAINOR: Climate hypocrisy and six other wild and wacky news stories from November

Here’s your collection of the seven most brutal stories from the past month. Let’s start with the sheer madness of the climate conference in Brazil and then look at six other conferences.

1. COP chaos

It’s November, and that usually means environmental creatures are coming out of the woodwork. For the past several years, November has held the annual meeting of the Conference of the Parties. This year was the COP30 conference held in Brazil It attracted more than 56,000 delegates and business representatives from all over the world. Yes, you linked – it’s a carbon footprint the size of a small city, flying around the world to protest… carbon use.

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, that would mean eight miles of “a new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest.”

The highway was proposed in 2012, “but has been repeatedly postponed due to environmental concerns.”

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Then the rooms at the event were so expensive that some delegates balked at the cost. (And most of them did not pay their costs.) So Brazil brought in two large cruise ships to house the poorer delegates. “Offers 11 restaurants, 12 bars, 3 pools and 8 hot tubs,” one advertised. Life is hard working to save mother earth. This is not a weather event, but a mass holiday of 56,000 people.

2. The less-than-stellar Mr. Burns

We’re talking about Ken Burns, a sometime historian and all-round leftist. Burns is in the news with his new documentary series on the Revolutionary War. I’ll leave the verification of this to actual historians. I’m here to mock Burns for his elitist view of rural America. Burns was interviewed on Bulwark’s How to Fix It, and decided to pay their salaries back in the day Public media.

According to Burns, defunding public media will hurt us in non-blue America. “It will hurt mostly rural communities — maybe that’s their intention. There will be new deserts.”

That’s right, people in rural America shouldn’t have things like the Internet to find news. He seems to expect us to be upset because we can’t hear NPR while we sit in the outhouse and drink our moonshine.

Ken Burns speaks on stage during the PBS New York premiere of “The American Revolution,” featuring Ken Burns and Tom Hanks, during the 2025 Atlantic Film Festival on September 18, 2025, in New York City. (Michael Lucisano/Getty Images)

People in rural America barely notice the public media. These outlets are designed for upscale urban audiences that are more than 90% liberal. The country boy can survive… without NPR’s leftist manipulation of the news.

3. A toast to the position

Things are changing in the opinion section of the Washington Post. In an effort to reach other voices, the newspaper has launched a new section called Ripple. Depending on your age, it might mean what happens when you throw a pebble in a pond. Or it could conjure up images of the great Redd Foxx playing Fred Sanford in “Sanford and Son.” His favorite drink on the show was a fortified wine called Ripple. For old-timers like me, one wonders if other names they considered were Mad Dog, Night Train, or Thunderbird.

Things are changing in the opinion section of the Washington Post. (Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

4. Farmers no longer dig it

Change, as we learned from the president Barack Obamaoften not very good. This is the fate of the Farmers Almanac. The calendar, well, buys the farm. No, not this almanac, but the other almanac — or, as the Associated Press put it, “not to be confused with its longstanding, older competitor, The Old Farmer’s Almanac in neighboring New Hampshire.”

However, this Maine-based almanac has an astonishing 208 years under its belt and, says the Associated Press, “is believed to be the oldest continuously published periodical in North America.”

Maine State Capitol Building in Augusta. (Ikrafi Productions via Getty Images)

It will all end in 2026 due to the “chaotic media environment.” Employees have nothing to be ashamed of. More than half the newspapers I’ve ever worked for have survived. Really messy.

5. On the farm

While we’re at the farm, let’s talk about the sheep, followed by a cuddle with the goats. The Washington Post published an article about a farmer rescuing gay sheep Unforgettable title“I like your jacket. Is it made of gay sheep’s wool?”

According to the newspaper, “As many as one in 12 male sheep do not breed but show an – ahem – interest in other rams.” So the farmer, whose sheep have names like “Marvin Gaye,” made a “fashion connection with Grindr,” a gay hookup site. Together they launched a fashion show “To promote rainbow wool.” Show title: “I’m Surviving.”

Not to be outdone, USA Today celebrated Thanksgiving by writing about the “turkey cuddle therapy.” “The cuddling of turkeys, in particular, can be profound,” we were told. But don’t you dare touch the turkey without his permission. “All interaction between guests and animals occurs on the animals’ terms—in other words, the turkey needs to choose,” the author wrote.

I’ll tell you, I’ve had some turkeys On Thanksgiving – With mashed potatoes, filling, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie.

Thanksgiving dinner featuring cooked turkey and more. (Istock)

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6. Hate home

The media bombards us with entitled complaints about how expensive life is for most Americans and how difficult it is to buy a home. Leave it to the left Vox to move while the whole world is reeling. Vox ran a piece in November titled “Why Owning a home exaggerated.”

Yes, building equity and having a place you can fix up and live in – how crazy. What followed was an interview with Jerusalem Demsas, editor-in-chief of The Argument magazine, who said: “Homeownership is overrated.” Now, I agree that home values ​​don’t always rise, but going against the American dream is uniquely liberal.

Yes, homes don’t always rise in value, but going against the American dream is a uniquely liberal thing to do.

7. Hunka Hunka Birnin… Law

Movies involving eccentric rulers are more honest than we want to admit. A Judge Missouri He loses his job for wearing an Elvis wig and playing “The King” during court cases.

St. Louis Judge Matthew Thornhill faces “a six-month unpaid suspension under the agreement he reached with the state,” according to the Associated Press. After that, he will sit on the bench for a further 18 months before stepping down, possibly to tour. (People magazine even had pictures of him as Elvis.)

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The Retirement, Removal and Discipline Committee pursued his love for the “King of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” noting how he stood “with employees wearing a plastic Elvis wig and sunglasses” and sang from the bench.

(St. Louis Judge Matthew Thornhill.)

The ubiquitous Elvis character allegedly violated the rules of “order and decorum” despite 35 letters supporting the judge’s character. The judge ruled and found it deficient.

On the bright side, it may have the makings of a My Cousin Vinny sequel.

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