Some Quick Notes -- October 22, 2016

Some Quick Notes

The Bakken. Over at the sidebar at the right, a link to one of my most-viewed posts: graphics of 320- and 160-acre density drilling in the Bakken, posted back in 2013. Now three years later, Bakken 2.0: twenty-four (or 32 depending how one counts) wells in one drilling unit.

A Shocking Affair. The other day, in a non-Bakken post, I wrote in an essay on reparations:

Fortuitously for anyone who can claim to have a slave in his or her past, including some of Thomas Jefferson's descendants, I suppose, along came #BlackLivesMatter. The movement.  

In this month's issue of The Smithsonian, on page 25, an essay on "Thomas Jefferson's shocking affair with Sally Hemings" -- titled "Before the Scandal Broke", suggesting that John Adams was well aware of this shocking scandal at the time, long before rumors started circulating.

The Museum Simply Was Not Big Enough. This is the same Smithsonian that excluded Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas from its new African American museum because the Smithsonian said, "We cannot tell every story." It's been reported that Clarence Thomas was the first conservative African-American to be appointed to the Supreme Court, but now we will never know. This was not a small, temporary exhibit in some other museum; this was an entirely new, stand-alone, huge museum "dedicated" to telling the African-American story. The museum did have room to tell Anita Hill's story. I won't be renewing my subscription to the Smithsonian, but I made that decision some months ago for different reasons.

Hurricane season is over in one week. Ten years of no hurricanes hitting the US, and then a "questionable" hurricane hits the US this summer followed by an over-hyped category 5.0 Hurricane Matthew that did not live up to the hype. But it allowed warmists to call for new way of "categorizing" hurricanes.

We've already seen snow in North Dakota this year, and now there are reports of snow in northeast US this weekend. 

US debt. Connecting the dots. The narrative is shifting. Right, wrong, or indifferent. Whether you agree with the thesis of this article at the Huffington Post, it helps explain the shift in thinking in Washington, DC. The US debt and US deficits don't matter.