Both Tony Evans and Ben Carson, along with others who speak of personal responsibility and making good choices, are not painting a complete picture. Choice is an interesting circumstance, particularly in the black community. For many African Americans, choice is a manufactured illusion of empowerment. For example, as a child my mother used to make me feel empowered by the choices I made. �Would you like to wear the purple shirt or the pink shirt?� she would ask me. I might have had the ability to pick pink or purple, but my mother created those choices for me from a closet full of clothes. But in a report yesterday, the US Energy Information Administration said that US oil production surged last week to 9.56 barrels a day, up from about 9.2 the prior week. It was the highest US production in 44 years and, while subject to potential revision, suggested at a minimum that low prices have not curtailed shale. (Alex Sturrock) WRITTEN BY Carson and Evans and those like them have long ago realized it�s much easier to blame the victim rather than the system. It will get worse in the event that a nuclear deal is signed in the coming weeks with Iran�a strong possibility. If a deal happens, look for yet another barrels a day of oil over the subsequent year or so. Unfortunately, the study of failure doesn�t make for such an inspiring message. �In Search of Mediocrity� or �Built to Collapse� probably wouldn�t have been best sellers. The real benefit of reading popular business books could be this: they may not provide a path to guaranteed success but they certainly provide inspiration. MERS, however, causes lungs to shut down much more quickly than SARS. While only about 8% of SARS patients die, the MERS mortality rate ranges from 30% to 40%. So what to think about Iraq? It�s very hard to choose who to photograph because everyone, on close inspection, has something about them which represents the history of their family, their culture and themselves. I do ask myself why I am choosing certain people, I try to rely on instinct more than premeditation. I just expose myself to the world and see what draws me. |
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