Day May 31, 2008

On Scott McLellan’s book

From Colin MacEnroe of the Hartford Courant – he’s always fun to read. The contents of the book seem more like someone from Middle-Earth or Narnia who suddenly notices that he has been living in a fictional realm. It’s as…

Dr. John and the Lower 911. City That Care Forgot

Among the songs “Say Whut?” demands accountability for the botched Katrina response, and bites hard: “Say it’s a job well done/Then you giggled like a bitch/Hopped back on the Air Force One.” In “Dream Warrior,” Dr. John imagines himself as…

Feds investigate possible oil market manipulation

An investigation of oil trading by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission will likely target evidence that traders intended to manipulate markets rather than just schemed to make money, former officials of the agency said. Who woke the CFTC up…

Carbon atom claustrophobia

Dave Riley says the problem is where to put all those carbon atoms where they’ll do the least harm. We are no longer just talking about whether you can run the air conditioner 24 hours per day or how you…