So I Extend My Hand to My Man Screaming, "We on Our Way"

We are still several weeks out from a decision on the exploratory oil drill applications in the Great Salt Lake near Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty, according to Utah Public Lands Policy Coordinator John Harja.

What's that, you say? You're not familiar with the issue? Pick up a copy of The American Prospect and you can read my lead culture piece about the situation—why it matters and how the state will weight the factors that will influence its eventual decision. You can read a few grafs online, but the rest's behind a firewall. (Plus in print you can read my witty photo hed contribution: "Downward Spiral".)

What's that, you say again? You would like to read about Spiral Jetty and oil but you need to familiarize yourself with the tenets of Barack Obama's foreign policy platform? In the very same issue you can read a comprehensive survey of the Obama Doctrine by Washington Independent bomb-thrower, Surge drummer, and roommate/Jezebeau/Top Chef/Re-Upper Spencer Ackerman.

Are you kidding? A Flophouse two-for-one? The news called it crack/ I called it Diet Coke.