Trump a newsmaker, a la Wash Post. Reminds you of whom?

Look, this passage is adapted from an early Pope Francis write-up, you can’t fool me.

Welcome to Donald Trump’s world, a never-ending drama in which the star lives in the moment and careens from controversy to controversy with a dizzying flood of tweets and seemingly off-the-cuff remarks to the media.

In the space of just 24 hours this week, the president-elect gave a preview of the drama he seems likely to bring to the White House.

Naah, just kidding.

Fenwick loses, judge to retire in a week

Kathleen Kennedy hangs up her robe as scheduled on Nov. 30, eight days after deciding that refs make bad calls all the time, and she can’t be the one to call them on giving Plainfield North (hereafter asterisked in IHSA records?) an extra play in an admittedly bad decision.

Nice lesson taught to Friars (and the other guys) about how people screw things up and the court goes along with it. Tsk.

Challenging climate-change enthusiasm

Chicago-based Heartland Institute has a position on the issue.

The Heartland Institute has participated in the global debate over climate policy since 1993, when it published an influential book titled Eco-Sanity: A Common-Sense Guide to Environmentalism.

Our position has always been that if human emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases pose a threat to the natural world and human health, then actions to avoid the threat would be necessary.

But if the best-available research shows there is little danger or that there is nothing we can do to prevent climate change, then we should oppose legislation adopted in the name of “stopping” global warming.

So, the eminent Christian leader, Pope Francis, among other opinion-makers and -leaders, certainly has a challenge. Or one would think.