Chicago: That Tottering Town -- The Claremont Review Of Books -- Summer 2022

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Baghdad: has the city fallen?

Later, 7:24 p.m. CT: for the record, I'm watching the final round of the PGA FedEx tournament for the third time. I saw much of it live the first time, but then interrupted due to family commitments. Then last night, saw the fourth round from the fourth hole for the final group. Tonight, I'm seeing it from the beginning. I truly think the commentators missed how big a deal this particular tournament was. They never saw it coming. Right up until the 18th hole, it sounded as if they thought Scheffler was going to come back and win. 

• At the start of the fourth round, 
• Scheffler, -23
• Rory, -17
• After the first hole:
• Scheffler, -23
• Rory, -16
• Rory "spotted" Scheffler seven strokes after the first hole!
  

Original Post 

Link here. 

Hopefully not behind a paywall. 

Inertia alone will assure Chicago is around long after I'm dead but it won't be worth much. 

From the linked essay:

Three years and one pandemic later, we know that technology can change and improve, and that a surprisingly large number of people prefer to tolerate its remaining deficiencies than to devote ten hours every week, the equivalent of 21 entire days out of every 365, to a soul-crushing commute. 

Technological advances frequently reveal that what had been regarded as virtues really consisted of making a virtue of necessity. Many people who had considered themselves avid movie-goers, for example, have turned out to be movie-stayers, watching streaming services at home on a flatscreen the size of an SUV. 

We may be in the process of discovering that, given the opportunity, we are an asocial species, eager to limit and curate the list of people with whom we spend time in the same room. In the early days of the internet, its enthusiasts talked about “the obsolescence of place,” a future where one could do just about anything from just about anywhere. 

If that future is no longer distant, then among Chicago’s challenges will be one confronting most cities: the unplanned obsolescence of urban living.

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Back to the Bakken

WTI: $96.91.

Natural gas: $9.369.

Active rigs: 46.

Three new permits, #39206 - #39208, inclusive:

• Operator Bowline (Nine Point, Triangle)
• Field: Buffalo Wallow (McKenzie)
• Comments:
• Bowline has permits for three Gustafson wells in lot 1 section 5-148-100; 
• to be sited 254 FNL and betweeen 750 FEL and 800 FEL;

One producing well (a DUC) reported as completed:

• 37896, 988, Iron Oil Operating, Boxcar 1-4-16H, Boxcar Butte, no production data,