Notes From All Over, Part 1 -- February 17, 2020

Word for the day: velleities. Link here. Fourth word in very first sentence/first line.

Short shelf life: I may be wrong, buy my hunch is that a lot of "political stories" are going to have much shorter half-lives after the Mueller investigation (two years) and the impeachment (six months). Prior to these two events, the Roger Stone story might have had legs, lasting months. But my hunch is that the Roger Stone story is already over, except at anti-Trump cable network news shows. Do a word search for "Stone" over at The Drudge Report and the only hit is for The Rolling Stone Magazine.

Bloomberg: the videos suggest Bloomberg is much more vulgar and much more inappropriate than folks thought. Remember, he's a New Yorker, and spoke his mind. Tweets are one thing, but the videos that are being aired, are quite remarkable, to say the least. 

Black bears: thriving in New Jersey despite global warming. 700-pound black bear taken with bow-and-arrow sets new world record.

Something worse than Trump? No, this is not from the Babylon Bee: link here. This is a US senator. Posted as a PSA -- summer is just around the corner, as they say.

Bakken: old story; re-posting. Breakeven prices in the Bakken.

Cheap oil: China is renting huge storage facilities in South Korea for all the oil they are buying -- never let a crisis go to waste. WTI at $52.10 today. In the sweet  sport for the US consumer.