“The government is expected to announce on Wednesday that three-quarters of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak has already evaporated, dispersed, been captured or otherwise eliminated — and that much of the rest is so diluted that it does not seem to pose much additional risk of harm,” reports today’s New York Times!
In the South, we like to call it a bubba thing. It’s the arrogance that grows only from an extreme lack of knowledge serving as a cover for ignorance. It’s a mentality best embodied in the redneck’s famous last words, “here, honey, hold my beer…watch’is,” as he guns his four-wheeler up the pile of...
Republican senators (well, Shelby of Alabama) went on the TeeVee Box this morning to say, well, they MIGHT vote to regulate the derivatives trade. Of course, they’ll have to explain to their benefactors why they could suddenly read the hand-writing on the wall and, well, while they like that direct Wall Street-to-Capitol Hill cheese...
Earth Day really isn’t really about saving the planet so much as saving its inhabitants. The planet will survive – it may be a dead rock – but it will survive. It’s the people and animals and plants we have to worry about. And we especially have to worry about the people…’cause it appears...
