- I will go to work soon.
Total poppycock! This was, like the other examples Mr. Brooks cited, a clearcut case of lax oversight and excessive risk-taking in the name of profits. Just like the financial market meltdown. It has virtually nothing to do with people's generally poor ability to assess risk in highly complex circumstances. And since that statement is of course true---it is hard to assess risk in complex situations---it only argues MORE for a strict regulatory environment, one that assumes things will go wrong and should therefore be built for the inevitable accident and not for the hope that catastrophe will be avoided. Does this mean more costs for consumers? Of course it does, but for too long the US has ignored the externalities created by some of its industries in favor of making or saving more money in the very short term. If you let the 'market' decide what preventative measures are indicated, it will always choose the short term, cheaper ones and let the costs of that decision be borne by others. When the next round of decisions regarding regulation comes up, I hope that Mr. Brooks and all of the conservatives on the Gulf Coast will remember this event and back wiser, long-term solutions than those they've supported to date.
- Madness of Mr. Brooks. He has a mind. He should find a better use for it.
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Near Ground Zero, the Sacred and the Profane
Does anyone else find this article offensive? Sounds like writer is trying to argue that Islam was a huge contributor to the 9/11 attacks and then compared a religious institution to a sex shop? Seriously? New low NYT.
- If they were not jihadies, they would not be there. Let them advertise. Crusading is not the Times's way. The Post does that.
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House Votes to Allow Repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Law
It is about time. Yes.
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BP Resumes Work to Plug Oil Leak After Facing Setback
Gloria from Silver Spring MD wrote: "but it seems that someone should be doing something". This is something what you can do: In Holland we bring oil-covered birds that we find on the shore to cleanup utilities. We wash them every feather with soap (rubberring around the beak) and put them under a warm lamp to dry. Then they get a rest period of several weeks in with they get fed and recovered. Some birds will die while they have to much oil inside then in cleaning their feathers themselves. The birds that survived the treatment, will then be set free in a clean area. Furthermore do I think that BP and the Government must gather as much as possible people to start cleaning the shores and marchlands right now.
- I will let this commenter lead the way. There is no teacher like direct experience. At least it is low sulphur.
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The President Confronts the Spill
Canada requires all companies drilling deepwater wells to simultaneously drill a relief well in case of disaster... so simple, such common sense. Sigh.
- They learned from Santa Barbara.
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Sister Margaret’s Choice
The recent excommunication of a nun who saved a mother’s life underscores a perception problem of the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy.
- Mindless traps.
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House Votes to Allow Repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Law
The 234-to-194 vote and an earlier vote in a Senate committee amount to major steps toward dismantling the 1993 law widely known as “don’t ask, don’t tell.”
- Not done yet.
- Skull and cross bones, in red.
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Oxford Tradition Comes to This: ‘Death’ (Expound)
All Souls College is scrapping its one-word exam, on which applicants demonstrated their intellectual flexibility.
- The admissions comity does not want to read the essays.
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Drilling for Certainty
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico reminds us of the difficulty of predicting disaster in complex technological systems.
- Brooks is predictable.
Hell in the Islamic Republic
One young Iranian's nightmare and the enduring need for dialogue.
- Cohen asked and was told.
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BP Resumes Effort to Seal Oil Well After Daylong Halt
BP resumed pumping drilling fluid into a stricken oil well after stopping late Wednesday when engineers saw that too much of the fluid was escaping along with the leaking crude oil.
- "Same shit, different day."
Women, Work and the Supreme Court
“Women, Work and the Supreme Court - http://nyti.ms/aDldzx”
This will require more time than I can give it now.
- Probably. But never without cost to us.
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Obama Offers Regret Mixed With Resolve
President Obama balanced a defense of his handling of the spill with an unusual presidential self-critique.
- He is angry!
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Apple Passes Microsoft as No. 1 in Tech
Apple, which had been given up for dead a decade ago, is now the world’s most valuable technology company. Apple if you can afford it.
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Student of Homicide Is Charged in Three Murders
Police on Thursday charged Stephen Griffiths, a former van driver enrolled in a postgraduate course in criminology, with the murders of women identified by the police as prostitutes.
- A smart thrill killer. Edit him.
Wall Street Journal Says It’s Up to You, New York, New York
The Wall Street Journal’s much-anticipated New York edition hit the doorsteps of the city and brought with it the first broadsheet newspaper competition in decades.
- Rupert Murdock tries again.
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More Manhattan and Less Staten Island in New Subway Map
Manhattan is larger and Staten Island smaller in the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s new, simplified edition of the guide used by millions of riders.
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U.N. Official Set to Ask U.S. to End C.I.A. Drone Strikes
A senior official’s argument that the “life and death power” of drones should be entrusted to regular armed forces, not intelligence agencies, will complicate a growing U.S. reliance on that tactic in Pakistan.
- Pakistan has been an ally. Not a way to treat a friend.
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