Current Affairs
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Not a lot yet, but some. This is the view from the bay shore at my house about 7 this morning. The yellow stripe that you see in this picture wasn't there yesterday. It's an oil containment "boom"–basically a chain of floats that are supposed to stop oil on the surface (more information here if…
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Considering my vast international audience, I thought I should offer some comment on the World Cup, which I know is of immense interest in most of the world outside the USA. First, I would like to ask people who want to point out that the name of the game is “football”, not “soccer,” to get…
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…that the men who died who died when that oil rig exploded got some recognition. Take a moment to look at each picture and say a prayer for them and their families.
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Primary elections are being held in Alabama today. I voted for people with the above names: Huey "Hoss" Mack for Baldwin County Sheriff, Twinkle Cavanaugh for Alabama Public Service Commissioner, and Luther Strange for Alabama Attorney General. The funny thing about "Hoss" Mack is that he looks like an accountant. (Non-U.S. or maybe non-Southern readers: "Hoss," a mispronunciation…
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There was an argument between BP and Transocean hours before the explosion, ending with a BP official telling Transocean to do it their way, and a Transocean manager saying "I guess this is what we have a blowout preventer for." BP apparently had the last word.
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They're beginning a new attempt to cap the oil spill. Hope and pray that they'll be successful. http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/26/gulf.oil.spil/index.html?hpt=T1 (By the way, for those of us who are not big fans of President Obama, there's a real temptation here to try to put some blame on him. But it doesn't belong there. And it didn't belong…
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Who would have thought that being Commissioner of Agriculture would call for the level of pugnacity on display here?: (Hat tip to Inside Catholic–I haven’t been watching tv for a while so I hadn’t seen this commercial). And do you think Alabama really needs a guy named….?
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Well, I don’t get excited about politics and politicians, because I think we have deep cultural problems that aren’t amenable to political solutions. If you want political excitement, visit the political blogs, which are buzzing today with reactions to the speech and with a higher-than-usual level of liberal-conservative Democrat-Republican acrimony. However, I will say that…
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Eventually, Like Napoleon: My 9/11 Column When I heard the news of John Kennedy’s assassination I was sitting in tenth-grade biology class. When I heard the news of the 9/11 attacks I was on my way to work, crossing Mobile Bay on I-10. These are the only two major news stories of my life for…
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What is the real threat from Iran? This column by Thomas Sowell, who is not an idiot, says it is grave: if Iran gets nuclear weapons it’s only a matter of time until it uses them against Israel and, via terrorist proxies, the U.S. Others write that off as hysteria, perhaps deliberately fostered by neocons…
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