Ross Rant | October 3, 2017

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When the world's largest car market and one of the world’s biggest automakers make the same decision in tandem, you know changes are a coming to the industry and it is the slow end of the production of internal combustion engines.

What is the thinking of the EU team in Brussels as they watch the fallout from the Catalonia referendum at the same time they manage Brexit? 

Currently, the EU is standing with Spain, but their commitment to the project must have its doubters among the staff. The bloc defends democratic rights but is wary of encouraging separatist forces.

A Nobel Prize awarded for the discovery of gravitational waves. Predicted by Albert Einstein a century ago as part of his theory of general relativity, gravitational waves are caused by colliding black holes and only first detected in 2015.  Measuring a gravitational wave is a massive challenge, moving at the speed of light and being thousands of times smaller than an atomic nucleus.

Close to 700 million people in China are expected to travel during the country’s National Day holidays, known as the Golden Week, which kicked off on Sunday.

The NHL drops a puck for the 100th season of play with a record 31 teams including the Vegas Golden Knights and the Pittsburgh Penguins looking for a Stanley Cup three-peat.

For the first time since 1994, there will be no break for the Olympics as the NHL will skip the games in South Korea and look for other grassroots ways to expand the league internationally.

Beyond the new Little Caesars Arena, my beloved Detriot Red Wings look to have a long season and could very well miss the playoffs again. Regardless the club is the gold standard of the league and has won 11 Stanley Cups.

The MLB playoffs start tonight with Twins playing the Yankees starting at 8:00 pm ET. But the only thing that matters for America's favorite pastime will the Indians of Cleveland finally win the World Series by the end of the month?

Ross Rant | October 2, 2017

I am sad to report carnage has landed on the Las Vegas Strip. 

At least 50 people are dead and more than 200 are wounded after a shooting late Sunday night at an outdoor music festival on the Las Vegas Strip.  The shooter attacked attendees of the Route 91 Harvest Festival music concert from a room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel located across the street from the venue. This is a developing story and will no doubt dominate American news and politics for days.

Trump was in rare form this weekend on the Twitter machine.

The conventional wisdom inside-the-beltway is that Trump is the mad tweeter - his actions on the Twitter machine are unrehearsed, unplanned, and untested. The conventional wisdom is wrong.

If you believe what Trump does on the Twitter machine is not planned or scripted than you believe Jimmy Fallon writes all his jokes.

Catalonia's disputed referendum on independence from Spain descended into violence on Sunday as leaders of the recalcitrant region claim voters overwhelmingly backed independence. Will independence be declared?

Uber is the General Hospital of Silicon Valley, but I still love the service.