Chi Trib surprises this morning, with p-1 story about oil-drilling from a “big oil” company’s point of view. It even gives a nod towards supply shortage leading to demand increase causing price rise — an elementary piece of economics that seems mostly to escape criers after corporate scalps.
Another story worth noting is James Janega on the Anbar Province success, including J’s scepticism about its meaning, which is fair enough as long as it’s presented that way openly, and from someone who’s been there, to boot.
Finally, the long piece on the all-boys prep school in Englewood is inspiring as sign of what can be done to arrest the “cycle of violence” and all-around ghetto failure. It features a young man whose mother feared the worst from the culture in which they were living. Quite thought-provoking.
However, the Perspective section is back to its old left-wing ways with a takeout on the horrors of war focusing on bereaved family of dead GI. This is vintage anti-war stuff in which editors and writers depict sorrow and grief, period. No heroism here, no cause worth dying for. Leaves one to presume they think there ain’t no such thing. A Memorial Day dirge from the pacifist camp.
Blithe Spirit 