Wednesday Links and The Post Leads With A Video Even I Couldn't Make Up

Huge thanks to Don for this one:

Government Causing Deer Crossing Problems; DOT Needs To Move Signs to Low-Traffic Areas
After "Accidentally" Hitting a Deer, Insurance
Map: states with highest risk of hitting a deer.

RBN Energy: natural gas pipeline operators rethinking entire national system; the Marcellus effect

Wall Street money starting to discover the Bakken: NY Times article, but you have to read to the very end;  I'll post more of the story later, but want folks to read it on their own; it's really quite an eye-opener; an early-morning reader sent the link to me -- huge "thank you" -- amazed one would read through all the other stuff to get to the part on the Bakken;

Wells coming off confidential list today have been posted; scroll down.

Oil companies did very, very well yesterday; obviously some were oversold last week. [Disclaimer: this is not an investment site.]

HAL: earnings out; bad; expensive guar. 

Anyone following CVX is surely following the shenanigans in Ecuador, so I was happy to see that CVX futures are up today.

Another daily newspaper may end is print edition. This actually saddens me: One of my greatest pleasures in Yorkshire (another life) was to grab the two London Sunday papers, while picking up bacon, fresh bread, etc., for breakfast and enjoying a long leisurely morning reading and enjoying the incredible Nidd Valley view. The biggest casualty of the print media, however, will be the politicians. Note the very first post at the above link:

February 8, 2010: Magazines' Newstands Sales Fall 9.1%: Newsweek down 41.3% (wow!). Time down 34.9% (wow!). TV Guide -- the whole company -- sold for a dollar in 2008. Reader's Digest is in bankruptcy.

Time featured Obama on its cover 14 times in 2008. Newsweek was close behind, featuring the president-to-be on 12 of its issues in 2008. Time had 52 issues in 2008, so Obama has been featured on more than one-in-four of its covers, or about 27% of the time.

Obama's face or name somehow made it onto the cover of Time just about half of the time in 2008 (25 out of 52 issues -- 48%).

And so it goes. Sad. But there was a story somewhere yesterday that regional papers in the United States were actually doing quite well. Warren Buffett is a big investor in regional US newspapers. I still prefer the print edition to the on-line edition.

On another note, back to the Keystone XL 2.0. I have not dog in this fight, and no longer care what happens to the Keystone (actually I never have). But when President Obama killed Keystone XL 1.0 he gave the opposition all along the way (Montana to Nebraska to Texas) time to regroup. What Nebraska does now may be moot; Texas landowners are going to do all they can to kill Keystone XL 2.0. Rail looks better and better all the time.

Housing construction is up 15% in September; strongest number in years.

WSJ, page A15, book review, Camille Paglia's Glittering Images. A very nice review. I will be buying the book; perhaps an early birthday present. Very early.

WSJ, page A16, Electric Car Crash. Obituary: President Obama's green energy industrial policy.

That's all.