Barton plays dumb.

"That is the cold reality of big-money politics," he said.

To convert some of the remaining wild areas into state and national parks, however, is only part of the answer. Even public parks are not what nature created over the eons of time, working with wind and wave and sand. Somewhere we should know what was nature’s way; we should know that the Earth would have been had not man interfered. And so, besides public parks for recreation, we should set aside some wilderness area of seashore where the relations of sea and wind and shore—of living things and their physical world—remain as they have been over the long vistas of time in which man did not exist. For there remains, in this space-age universe, the possibility that man’s way is not always best.”

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The French mathematician Henri Poincaré once wrote about how he struggled for two weeks with a difficult mathematical proof. He set it aside to take a bus to a geology conference, and the moment he stepped on the bus, the solution came to him.

"By 2008, a barrel of oil was traded 27 times, on average, before it was actually delivered and consumed."

Above is Matt Tiabbi's latest research on the financial crisis. Unfortunately, his fairly well researched article (it could have used more links to resources) is slightly undermined by his overly populist writing style clearly geared for the average Rolling Stone reader. However, if you can put up with that, you might find it interesting.