There should be an absolute ban on cutting old growth and mature forest on all public lands, effective immediately. All forestry operations should be based on maximizing carbon intake.

JFK’s speech turns 64 years old on Monday. Yet despite its age, and the radically different times in which we live, it reads with youthful vitality.

The appalling Los Angeles fires illustrate a climate, terrain, vegetation and governmental vulnerability a clever enemy could exploit, especially enemies like Russia and China who practice hybrid warfare.

The resistance has taken to its recliners with bags of popcorn. Its members expect grand opera as an administration run by billionaires for billionaires rolls over the working folk who put Trump in office.

As this year’s inauguration occurs on the same day as the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, Trump might — if he has it within himself — pledge to honor the great civil rights leader’s statement about love: “Hate is too great a burden to bear. I have decided to love.”

We saw all five living presidents happily seated together, while we observers speculated as to what Republican President-elect Donald Trump and Democratic former President Barack Obama were joking about with each other. Peace at last?