Achenblog: September 12, 2010 - September 18, 2010

After the well is killed

The Macondo well should be dead any minute now. Really dead. It's already been killed three times, but no one has trusted it to stay dead. It was sealed July 15 with the capping stack (or stacking cap? --...

By Joel Achenbach  | September 18, 2010; 8:26 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (301)
 
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Fenty vs. Gray: How I voted

Late yesterday afternoon, I strolled to the playground to cast my vote at the little field house where I've been voting for nearly two decades. Voting is a privilege and an honor and a civic duty. I believe in...

By Joel Achenbach  | September 15, 2010; 7:31 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (404)
 
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Vampire Weekend and how Obama can get his groove back

The other night I drove a couple of critters to the Vampire Weekend concert (lest this damage my nonhipster street cred, let me stipulate that I merely dropped them off) and along the way got to thinking about the...

By Joel Achenbach  | September 13, 2010; 8:41 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (362)
 
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