Speaking of "Rocks": Review of the Brian Williams "Rock" -- The Bakken Rocks, North Dakota, USA

I was just going to leave the information below as it was, in the order that I clicked on it, looking for reviews. But by far, the best site was this one: send pastors. And that's why I listed it first. 

One reviewer led off his story with this: what he saw in Williston was incredible.

What happens when the oil runs out was topic of discussion at Straight Dope, and it sounded like dopes writing in. UND's conservative estimate is that the Bakken will take until 2030 to drill and then it will continue to produce until 2100. That's long enough for most of us.

Much better, from EntertainmentWeekly:

Before Stewart’s live-in-studio segments, Harry Smith presented an eye-opener about Williston, N.D., where an oil boom has led to an abundance of employment — thousands of jobs. So many, that there isn’t enough housing for the influx of workers, some of whom, we were told, form “man-camps” to live in during off-hours.

Advertising Age wrote this and a great photo to boot:

The busiest town in America is not in New York, California or anywhere near Madison Avenue, Hollywood or Disney World, but out on the prairie near the geographic center of North America.

It is Williston, North Dakota, a once-tiny frontier town just south of Canada near the Montana border, where an oil boom fueled by new drilling technology has created an economic anomaly in the otherwise recession-torn nation. While marketers across the country struggle with unemployed consumers, in Williston the problem is not creating jobs, but filling them.

Daily Motion has the 2.33 video I posted earlier.  It was so pleasant to see a positive piece on NBC News -- generally it's about some disaster ... or so I've been told. I do not watch network news any more.

Lipstick Alley had Twitter-like comments only. Not worth going there.

Whether a lot of folks watched it or not, it had a diverse and wide audience.