Oh, and by the way: the president of Columbia University and gentleman urban planner also happens to be the chairman of the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

It’s “she.” Ellen V. Futter, who between the Museum and Barnard College has at least run some things in her career. Still, I think the point stands: If Dimon/JPMC were trying to do serious risk management oversight, he/they would have looked elsewhere.

Yes, but note that the actual fracking is not being done in C. County —they’re just taking the sand, which has an especially useful shape to its grain, from there to other places where fracking is being done. So it’s a different kind of damage, more aking to mountain-top removal from the sound of it, and in these two accounts at least it’s not even clear that anyone has checked to see what it does to this particular soil to have one of its major constituents stripped out of it. But it seems that any estimate of the land that is damaged or destroyed by a given fracking operation should be increased by some factor that represents the additional land that was destroyed to extract the drilling sands used in the operation.

A Chippewa County resident:

“It takes 1.2 acres per person per year to feed every person in this country,” says Lisa Norberg. “And the little township that I live in, we have 9,000 acres that are for farm use. So if we just close our eyes and bend over and let the mining companies come in, we’ll have thousands of people we can’t feed.”

Crazier by the day.

Chippewa Falls?! Slow-ly I turn er, that is, I was just reading about that area an hour or so ago:

Farmers’ sand-frac nightmare, and for some powerful photos, here.

Though the sand mines might not be an immediate issue in the recall election, I wonder whether that could have something to do with the wife’s sense of urgency.

Oh, but the material does not require much exaltation …

8D It gets me so viscerally that you might get a chance, wherever you are. Just keep your windows up when the news is on in the East.

Looking back in the thread I see other faves, too. We’ve all become our junior high English teachers.

“Leverage” as a transitive verb.

Like most here I have a passel, but that one lately can make can make me bellow like a water buffalo.

Like those old stories where no matter in what outlying burb a black person encountered mishap, they were taken to Cook County Hospital?

Nice posts, lot of this going around these days. True about waking moments, and sometimes the other end of the process as well.

Peterr preaches!

Hampton and Clark were who I thought of immediately. Same playbook, it seems, except they don’t yet feel inflated enough to light up the place with gunfire first. But that of course is the objective of all the violence hyping, to try to get something that can be used as a cause to lash out.

Profiling in all its enraging glory has been known in pop culture for quite a while. From Alfred Hitchcock Presents, 1958,

The Crooked Road

True, the actors were all white, but it got something very current out in the general conversation and did something the Hitchcock series was particularly good at, showing how social mechanisms work. Beside, it has always happened to white people as well, just as possibly in this Bridgeport incident.

I wonder what the judge meant by “grant of reparations.”

Photgraphic evidence of large crowd gatherings in Chicago seems to be very precious. If you have any, archive them carefully.

A close-in shot at Daley Plaze by the Picasso, January 27, 1986, from a rally to greet the SuperBears.

The Plaza was jammed like that in all directions, with much spillover into the streets; I was stuck back on Dearborn Avenue over a half-block away. It would be just marvelous if any of the Occupy demonstrations gather a crowd that size. I wonder whether the visual sense of a throng of people would come through with as much impact at Millenium Park, especially with the greater amount of bric-a-brac it would have to flow around.

Some photos are still publicly linkable of crowds jammed from the Plaza south to the Board of Trade building at Jackson and LaSalle, about half a mile away, where the team busses had to work their way slowly through. Everyone was very patient on all sides, though I must say that when the temperature is described as “near zero” that day, I’m not sure it was from above; it made standing in a tight crowd seem like a wonderful idea. And as it was a working day, there must have been many people downtown who had to tolerate some inconvenience for several hours, though I’m hard put to recall much discussion about seeing to it that that never happened again.*

But, that seems to be permissible for some things, like enjoying our sports heroes, but not for others, like demanding our governments hear us.

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* This 2005 rally for the World Series Champion White Sox was held just north of Daley Plaza, nearer the State building and still very much in the business district. Wouldn’t 1.75 million people at the Occupy demonstrations —even combined— be grand?

Meanwhile in London it’s Rebekah Brooks day at the Leveson hearings, going on now:

Brooks, the ex-editor of both the Sun and the News of the World, will face a series of questions about her relationship with former prime ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, but the inquiry is likely to place extra scrutiny on her dealings with David Cameron. The prime minister was reported to have offered his personal support to Brooks after she resigned from News International at the height of the phone-hacking scandal in July last year.

Brooks is unlikely to be asked about the ongoing police investigations into phone hacking or payments to police officers. She is currently on police bail after being arrested on suspicion of conspiring to intercept voicemail messages and of corruption on 17 July last year, and separately held on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice on 13 March this year.

Bit of Dis …

… y Algo Bueno!

[Waves to everybody]

Three cheers, fatster!

(Secret Service, not so much:o( We seem more and more to have a collective need for some quiet time, on top of everything else.)

Lest one lose one’s place:

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