Tuesday Morning News And Links: President Obama Now Agrees -- Plan B Should Be Available To His Daughters, Their Friends; Active Rigs In The Bakken Steady; Huge Apple Presentation Yesterday

Active rigs: 186 (steady, same as yesterday)

Wells coming off the confidential list have been posted. 

RBN Energy: Continuation of the series on underestimating production of natural gas; great series

WSJ Links

Section D (Personal Journal):

• Military pensions are tax-free if one has a mental health disability; many of us started drinking coffee in the military; quitting caffeine is now listed as a mental-health disorder; most military pensions could not be tax free
• The Spurs have always been underrated; third game tonight

Section C (Money & Investing):

• Hog prices rise to near 2-year high

Section B (Marketplace):

• Apple plays up its cool; the announcements yesterday were breathtaking; full outcome won't be seen for many months, possibly a year, but once those developers get to work it's going to be amazing; stats comparing Apple apps with Android: staggering; boots Google for Bing (a huge story, by the way)
• A wake-up call for Booz Allen; the media is talking as if "we" haven't been outsourcing intel for yars; hey, folks, we've been doing it for decades; wasn't Booz Allen run by Dick Cheney once? No, that was Halliburton, the other bad company
• How's that tax working out, Mr Hollande? Michelin will shut truck-tire factories in France

Section A:

• Who wudda thought? Google search will ensure proper spelling, grammar; if you can't find it with a google search, it doesn't exist; does a falling tree make noise if no one is in the forest to hear it; does a bear ...
• The president flips: yes, his daughters should have unfettered access to Plan B;  
• Now, it's hip to live near rail stops
• Senate passes bill to end farmer payments; upstate New York farmers will demand fracking be allowed; their Pennsylvania neighbors are draining all the oil from upstate New York
• Investigators pore over leaker's life; in fact, that was the norm when I was in military intel
• Greece unable to sell its natural-gas company after Russian giant Gazprom withdrew;
• Here we go again: worrying about 3 mm rise in ocean, and meanwhile the dike breaks in Germany; a number of villages flood; will likely get worse; but at least Germany is working to hold back that 3 mm rise in sea water; whether or not one "believes" in global warming, and whether one "believes" the flooding is due to global warming, Germany might have been better off preparing for floods than installing all those wind turbines
• This is not good: millions of young Chinese men unemployed and no wives to go home to
• Qatar promises free fuel to Egypt: one reason that OPEC will keep pumping