Monday, September 22, 2008

Maybe We'll Go Blue In 2012

The Obama campaign pulls out of "those high Plains states where the livestock population far outnumbers the humans," notes an L.A. Times blog.

When is this thing over? Six weeks?

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Boom

As long as oil prices stay above $75 a barrel, farmers around towns like Stanley will be able to afford heated tractors, and will continue to piss off their neighbors, according to USA Today, which reports on the jealousy that is consuming the oil-less on the Bakken Formation. If only they, too, could afford second-hand Lincolns.

Oil boom creates millionaires and animosity in North Dakota

Bonus: The inventor the modern diving board is from Stanley. Who knew!?