+ Joe Biden has had his Katrina moment, and I have my doubts that they people of Hawaii, traditionally a Democrat party stronghold, are going to forget about it anytime soon. The media treated Bush’s response to Hurricane Katrina as one of the great political scandals in American history. Biden’s response to the Hawaiian fires has been in every way significantly worse.

+ You may recall Ukrainian flags all over everything including people’s Facebook pages. But have you noticed the remarkable lack of Hawaiian flags on people’s profiles these last few days?

+ Belief In what you can’t see isn’t opposite to science, but the beginning of it. This is one of the few points that Tyson and I actually agree on.