Joe Scarborough, this morning on MSNBC, challenged Barack Obama to be aggressive on alternative energy in his address to the nation tomorrow night. Like me, Scarborough wants Obama to channel the spirit of John F. Kennedy, who in 1961 announced that we’d put a man on the moon by the end of the decade, and […]
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Paying the environmental price for the fuck-ups of other states
The people of Florida have been standing up to oil industry pressure for decades. While their neighboring coastal states have approved off-shore drilling, in hopes creating jobs, and filling their coffers, the people of Florida have stood strong, opting to forgo immediate financial gratification, and instead safeguard their shoreline and wetlands for future generations. Of […]
Confirming what some of us knew all along about BP’s chemical dispersants…
Marine biologist Rick Steiner came out a few days ago, in an interview with Time, and stated that the primary reason an oil company would use such chemicals is to keep oil off the ocean’s surface, where it can be photographed.
You got your Gog in my Magog
It’s been requested that I move this bit of craziness up to the front page, from the comments section of a recent thread, where it was left by a reader in Ypsi Township calling himself EOS. He didn’t indicate it in his comment, but the first two paragraphs were lifted verbatim from an Israeli news […]