Sunday Morning Post

Good morning. Warm, damp here in the Piedmont.
If you don’t know it already, The Oil Drum is a good spot for Gulf well details.
The Alcoa imbroglio continues. Via L. Leslie you can read WUNC’s Esther Vadja’s view and response to criticisms (detailed previously at IHT). Also;
• Via Star News — Veterans finally getting more help for PTSD. Of course, they had to fight for it;
• WSN also offers a rather unkind farewell to Sen. Boseman. Ouch;
• This figures — But in the three years since a voluntary, pilot program started, no registered swine farms have produced electricity.;
• Char-O on the 40 banks in NC regulators are calling “troubled”;
• Wake is number one in population. Better growth planning and efficient mass transit system now just decades away. Elsewhere:
• Brooking report on unemployment is not pretty;
• Frank Rich explains the Passion of Mel;
• Earth remains a volatile place