Well, the biggest news in the world might be the rain in China, because it's raining so hard that the so-called Three Gorges Dam, which is a pretty big dam — it's damn big — might actually break, which is a really big deal, a super big deal. So this would be a disaster on a level that would be hard to even calculate. It looks like it might happen. And one of the risks is that the factories that make pharmaceuticals for this country are in the flood zone. So there's a non-zero chance that the pharmaceutical industry will get wiped out this week. So we got that to look forward to.

But let's hope that doesn't happen. I would guess that the Chinese are working very hard to relocate anything that can be relocated, so maybe they'll prepare in time. Let's see.

Portland. It's the 50th night of protests with fires and big visual things. Check out CNN.com to find all the stories and the pictures, the fires, the protesters. Nothing. If you look at the right-hand column on CNN.com, those are the stories they don't want you to see. So it's over there as just one line of text: "Portland protesters." No picture. So it's pretty clear that at least CNN doesn't want you to see those pictures. But I don't think that even Fox News is playing it up. So I think there's some kind of agreement not to show these protests, and I would love to know the real story behind that.