Clearing Out The In-Box -- November 7, 2018

A scrap of paper I found in one of my old journals, undated:

• HK: $2.7 billion; 142,000 net acres; 40,000 bopd
• KOG: $3.5 billion; 173,000 net acres; 34,0000 bopd

Neither are with us any longer. If I recall correctly one filed for bankruptcy protection and re-emerged in fine shape; the other bought by another Bakken operator

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Anti-?

The other day I mentioned to my wife that it seems if one ever says anything negative about the state of Israel, someone will label that person as anti-Semitic. Being tagged with anti-Semitism may not be the kiss of death but it certainly comes close. But if one speaks out against Iran, or against Saudi Arabia, how is one labeled?

I said this to my wife:

• speaking out against Israel can get one labeled, anti-Semitic
• but what are you called if you come out against Iran?

Without missing a beat, my wife (a very liberal, strong Beto supporter), said: "Patriotic."

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Statesman

Trump is a true statesman -- or a great stand-up comedian -- see screenshot below.

Beto? Not so much, at least based on his concession speech in front of his parents and in front of millions of impressionable young adults who stayed up last night to him talk.

Now, back to the statesman:

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The Literature Page

The New Journalism, edited by Tom Wolfe, c. 1973.

From wiki:

The Armies of the Night is a nonfiction novel written by Norman Mailer and published by New American Library in 1968. It won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction and the National Book Award in category Arts and Letters.
The book's full title is The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel/The Novel as History.

Mailer essentially created his own genre;[citation needed] as the subtitle suggests; the narrative is split into historicized and novelized accounts of the October 1967 March on the Pentagon. 

Mailer's unique rendition of the non-fiction novel was one of only a few at the time, and received the most critical attention. In Cold Blood (1965) by Truman Capote and Hell's Angels (1966) by Hunter S. Thompson had already been published, and three months later Tom Wolfe would contribute The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968).