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This guy and his company are unbelievable. Excerpt: BP officials on Saturday scrambled yet again to respond to another public relations challenge when their embattled chief executive, Tony Hayward, spent the day off the coast of England watching his yacht compete in one of the world’s largest races. More: On Saturday, Senator Richard Shelby, Republican…

That’s a photo of my father and me taken late last year in his backyard. It’s one of my favorites. How fortunate we are to be here in Starhill to celebrate Father’s Day with him. It gives me the opportunity to bring up here what I think is the best thing I’ve ever written: an…

A clarifying quote from Wendell Berry: “What I stand for is what I stand on.” Corporation, politician, government bureaucrat, Internet pundit or talk show loudmouth, anybody who is against the land, against this land of south Louisiana, where I’m from and where I am today, is against me, and I’m against them. I’m against them…

Business as usual, apparently: Despite President Barack Obama’s promises of better safeguards for offshore drilling, federal regulators continue to approve plans for oil companies to drill in the Gulf of Mexico with minimal or no environmental analysis. The Department of Interior’s Minerals Management Service has signed off on at least five new offshore drilling projects…

I gotta say, this is heartbreaking. Leeville is a hardscrabble nothing town on the marshes, but for the people who live there, it’s everything. And it’s being taken away from them by the BP oil spill. Excerpts: “This is tearing us up,” says Serigny, 57. “When everybody looks at each other, you can see it…

Is there no natural social phenomenon that levelers and militant egalitarians won’t seek to destroy to create their Utopia? From the NYT: But increasingly, some educators and other professionals who work with children are asking a question that might surprise their parents: Should a child really have a best friend? Most children naturally seek close…

I’m addicted to Anthony Bourdain’s “No Reservations” travel food show, which I watch via streaming Netflix. Bourdain is a self-conscious cool guy, and at times, something of a jerk. But he’s compulsively watchable. Though I wish he would trash the food he’s served sometimes, the thing I like most about him is he gets passionate…

I, for one, wish it were possible to force Roger Kimball and Rep. Joe Barton to spend their summer vacation living on Grand Isle, in one of the empty camps that cannot be used because the beaches and the waters are full of BP’s oil. The image below, from Susan Poag of the Times Picayune,…

I’m doing a lot of editing work today down here in Louisiana on a report the Templeton Foundation will soon release, having to do with its general funding priorities. I was reading last night about all the things JTF funds in areas of education and exceptional cognitive ability, and was reminded of a conversation I…

Now this is one mob I can get behind:H/T: Jonah Goldberg
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