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From a connected friend in New Orleans: 1. Over a week ago a petroleum-engineer-friend told me that “top kill” was doomed to failure because the engineering didn’t even work on paper – no way to deliver enough pressure through the system, as designed, to overcome the outflow-pressure at that depth. He thinks BP is only…

We had an unusual number of well-trafficked threads here over the long holiday weekend. In case you missed the more popular ones: How seminary ruins one’s faith Pastors who don’t believe in God Lady Gaga & the ‘spiritual, not religious’ scam Atheists who teach in parochial school Crushing burden of student loan debt

Today marks nine years since Sharon Astyk and her family moved out to their farm. Mazel tov! Here are her deeply moving thoughts on the anniversary. Excerpt: Both Eric and I, the children of divorce and mobile childhoods, have now lived on this piece of land longer than we have ever lived in any single…

So says David Brooks, in a smart observation: The plume taps into a series of deep anxieties. First, it taps into the anxiety that the people running our major institutions are just not that competent. Second, it feeds into the anxiety that there has been an unhappy marriage between corporations and government officials, which has…
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