* The Newsroom (2012-2014) * Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky * Deepwater Horizon explosion * Ten workers were presumed killed by the initial explosion — our comfort for the loss of these families and may their memory be for a blessing (and apologies for the assumption of Sorkin that he could contact them somehow before the explosion): * Jason Anderson, 35, of Midfield, Texas; * Donald Clark, 49, of Newellton, Louisiana; * Stephen Ray Curtis, 40, of Georgetown, Louisiana; * Gordon Jones, 28, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana; * A drilling fluids specialist for M-I SWACO, the Louisiana State University graduate had hung up after talking with his wife, Michelle, just 10 minutes before the rig exploded. It was three days shy of their sixth wedding anniversary. (CS Monitor April 18, 2015) * This is the only one we know who went to Uni and seems to imply that he’d have called the newsroom prior to his wife three days before the anniversary. * Roy Wyatt Kemp, 27, of Jonesville, Louisiana; * Karl Kleppinger Jr., 38, of Natchez, Mississippi; * Keith Blair Manuel, 56, of Gonzales, Louisiana; * Dewey Revette, 48, of State Line, Mississippi; * Shane Roshto, 22, of Liberty, Mississippi; * Adam Weise, 24, of Yorktown, Texas. * An eleventh worker also died in the subsequent fire, a crane operator: * Aaron Dale Burkeen, 37, of Philadelphia, Mississippi. * Actually the only pilot known in the raid almost crashed the helicopter (Sun Times) * The Cynical Genius Illusion: Exploring and Debunking Lay Beliefs About Cynicism and Competence by Olga Stavrova 1,✉, Daniel Ehlebracht 2 * Daddy Wally Cronkite. Contra Nate Silver’s pieces like the following as well as the pieces cited in the podcast — — stands G. Elliott Morris’s piece: via Nate Silver on Bill Simmons: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joehawthorne.substack.com
