From Hilzoy at Washington Monthly, I learn that Sarah Palin knows many things about the oil market:
“Of course, it’s a fungible commodity and they don’t flag, you know, the molecules, where it’s going and where it’s not. But in the sense of the Congress today, they know that there are very, very hungry domestic markets [...]

An apparent suicide at 46. I was never a great fan, but he did spend part of his childhood in this town. I remember him writing about trying to play tennis in the heavy winds we get around here sometimes.
Only three years older than me. Too young. 

According to the New York Times, officials at the Department of the Interior are being investigated for exchanging cash, sex and drugs with oil industry executives. This is a real, honest-to-goodness scandal with clear-cut violations of ethics, the law and everything.
See? Was that so hard? No pretending we’re doing it all for national security’s sake. [...]

I don’t care what political party you belong to. I don’t even care if you are a peaceful protester or a violent anarchist. The police are not allowed to beat and torture you. It isn’t OK in Abu Ghraib or Gitmo, and it sure as hell isn’t OK in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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