Month: June 2010

[Editor’s note: This began as a comment this morning to “Oil spill: The nightmare becomes reality” a Carl Hiaasen piece on the arrival of BP’s poisonous gusher of crud on the shores of Pensacola.]...

Dear Governor Barbour: Still think this BP oil spill is much ado about nothing? GULFPORT, Miss. — A morning flight over the Mississippi Sound showed long, wide ribbons of orange-colored oil for as far as the eye could see and...

Here is how things really happen. (Paul Krassner-Counterpunch) Stan and the Volcano-Why Firing the General Was an Act of God Paul Krassner The volcano in Iceland was considered an Act of God. Smoke from the volcano caused...

Good to see the Democrats seemingly following my advice: A broad carbon-pricing system would essentially require power plants, manufacturers and transportation industries to limit the pollution that scientists say is causing...