Flooded and burned

Streets in Houston and Galveston, Texas, flooded on Sept. 22 after Beta, a tropical depression, made landfall near Port O’Connor. By that afternoon, Beta had dumped up to a foot or more of rain in areas south and east of Houston, on top of storm surges. Forecasters started calling storm systems for letters of the Greek alphabet after going through their predetermined seasonal list of names based on the English alphabet for the second time since the 1950s.

Lost and found

“These battles are going to rage no matter what the Supreme Court decides to do.”

Andrew Bath of the Thomas More Society on how the reversal of Roe v. Wade won’t mean the end of the abortion debate in America. 

Cleanup on aisle 1

“We indiscriminately shot at everybody. We shot the Muslim men in the foreheads and kicked the bodies into the hole.”

Myo Win Tun, a former Myanmar army soldier, admitting in a rare video testimony that he carried out orders to massacre minority Rohingya Muslims in the country in 2017. 

Died

Lou Brock, the St. Louis Cardinals’ signature leadoff hitter and base-stealer who helped the team win two World Series titles in the 1960s, died on Sept. 6 at age 81. Along with starting pitcher Bob Gibson and center fielder Curt Flood, Brock helped build the Cardinals into a powerhouse of speed, defense, and pitching during the 1960s. He had 938 steals in his career—so many he had a base-stealing award named after him while still an active player.

Blowing in the wind

Aug. 15—Thomas Burley/Alto, Mich.

You ask the rhetorical question, “How far left will Biden let the current wind take him?” The answer is obvious. He will hang on to his principles until hanging on to them dampens his chances of winning at the ballot box.

The demise of compassion

Aug. 15—Robert Yonker/Holland, Mich.