Miscellaneous Meanderings -- Everything But The Bakken -- October 16, 2017; Ice Too Thick -- 36,000 Penguins; Two Chicks Survive

Can't walk and chew gum at same time? In stilettos (apparently); running downstairs (apparently); with cup of (Irish?) coffee in hand (apparently); trips (apparently); breaks toe (apparently); doesn't show up for interviews, book signings. So many thoughts. First image, Harry Reid's black-eye story. It will be interesting how long it will be before we see Hillary in public again. It takes awhile for facial bruises to heal. My hunch: two weeks minimum.

Investors: making America great again:

Batteries to broccoli (thank you, Don): something tells me this may explain the challenge Tesla is having with plans to ramp up. It's hard to believe that Tesla's former "battery director" was an expert in battery technology. But maybe.

No football league (NFL), source:

Where was Elon Musk and his solar panels? Unusually thick ice in Antarctica – thousands of penguin chicks starve.

Scientists tracking 18,000 pairs of Adelie penguins in East Antarctica discovered that only two chicks survived the most recent breeding season.

Unusually thick sea ice forced the adult penguins to travel further for food. The unfortunate chicks starved to death as they waited for their parents to return.

Conservationists call it a “catastrophic breeding failure”.

This is the second such failure in four years caused by heavy sea ice.

At that time, although the same colony numbered 20,196 pairs at the time, it failed to produce a single chick.

 In free fall: PCG.