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Take a look at this long report from the NYTimes, summed up in this graf: New government and BP documents, interviews with experts and testimony by witnesses provide the clearest indication to date that a hodgepodge of oversight agencies granted exceptions to rules, allowed risks to accumulate and made a disaster more likely on the…

In today’s NYT, John Leland reports on people who believe Very Bad Times are coming soon, and who are preparing. Excerpt: Mrs. Wilkerson has now read two dozen books about peak oil and related topics. For a while, she became depressed at work and had trouble discussing her feelings with her husband because the conversations…

I would be lying if I told you that I wasn’t unfathomably relieved when the word came late today that our house in Dallas had finally and irrevocably been sold to its new owners. We’ve been paying that mortgage for five months now, for a vacant house, and were getting into a real financial bind…

According to John Palattella, writing in The Nation, anti-intellectualism at American newspapers has a lot to do with it. Excerpt: It’s necessary to explain these broad economic trends to understand a crucial and overlooked point–namely, that it is disingenuous for newspaper executives to justify the elimination or reduction of the book beat by claiming that…
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