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Terry Mattingly at Get Religion has his say about yesterday’s hot thread in these parts. Excerpt: In this new essay, Rosen connects some of the same dots. One of his central points is that most journalists hold in contempt people they consider “true believers.” Thus, most reporters and editors believe that they are seeking out…

This year marks the 10th anniversary of “On Writing,” the terrific book about prosecraft by Stephen King. I hadn’t read the book since it came out, but for some reason pulled it off my shelf before I set off for the airport, and read most of it on the flights down to Louisiana. What a…

“I hear comments sometimes that large oil companies are greedy companies who don’t care. But that is not the case in BP. We care about the small people.” — Carl-Henric Svanberg, BP chairman, who later apologized for his poor grasp of the English language.Mighty Favog points us to this short clip made by Phin Percy,…

Did you know that some Southern towns are paying cash premiums to entice Jewish families to relocate there? Why the heck not? The magificent Boss Hogg was a Jew. Sort of. True fact: The things you learn on this here blog.

A kind reader, knowing how I jones for Apocalyptica, sent along this link to a New Scientist story about how the sun is acting all freaky, and scientists don’t know why. Excerpt: But for the past two years, the sunspots have mostly been missing. Their absence, the most prolonged for nearly a hundred years, has…

Me neither. We’ll all be working at least till age 70. Michael Schrage at the Harvard Business Review has something he’d like us all to do to assess our future prospects: Everyone reading this should take 15 hard minutes to ruthlessly reassess the reality of the “new” final years of their future career. The finish…

Stephen Prothero appeared on Colbert last night to talk about his new book “God Is Not One” (which I’ve blogged about here and here). It was an enjoyable five-minute segment, with serious points being made amid Colbert’s hilarious mugging. Take a look: The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Stephen Prothero www.colbertnation.com Colbert…

I’ve decided not to comment on Obama’s oil spill speech, because I haven’t been able to figure out how to appraise it without slip-sliding into a political analysis, and I don’t want to do that on this blog. But I think James Poulos has a pretty solid cultural and philosophical (versus strictly political) take on…

I don’t know if you’re reading the website The Oil Drum, and its commentary on the BP oil spill, but it’s a site that attracts a lot of knowledgeable industry workers and experts. You can learn a lot from it. I’m not competent to judge the validity of this rather apocalyptic, technical comment by Oil…

Good Community Coffee morning from the Great State. We’re down here for the next week, en famille visiting the famille. We were here for 10 minutes yesterday before Matthew and Nora got stung by wasps. Whee! Happily, that crisis passed, and everybody’s copacetic. Nothing like a breakfast of pancakes and Steen’s cane syrup to get…
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