While much is being made of the catastrophic environmental and economic effects the oil being released from BP’s Macondo well, perhaps an even greater problem is the huge amounts of methane that accompanies it. Accounting for some 40% of the total volume, the methane is moving in vast underwater plumes at concentrations 10,000 that of normal. The man featured in …
Where’s a Monty Python two ton falling weight when you really need one?
Senator Mitch McConnell joined Gov. Oiley Barbour for some “good ‘ol sport fishin” Wednesday, in an effort to allay the fears of radical leftist fish lovers and prove that the “sport” is not actually “dead.” BILOXI — Mississippi’s Governor, Haley Barbour, a well-fed former Washington lobbyist, has matter-‘o-factly said the oil slick slickin’ offshore is “jist a sheen in most …
View of BP oil volcano from NASA’s Terra satellite Holy shit. Image found here. Explanatory text: On Saturday, June 19, 2010, oil spread northeast from the leaking Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico. The oil appears as a maze of silvery-gray ribbons in this photo-like image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite. The …
Judge Marty’s investment hump is showing Yesterday, US District Court Judge Martin “Marty” Feldman issued a preliminary injunction against Interior Secretary Ken Salazar‘s drilling moratorium against 33 deep water exploratory wells in the Gulf of Mexico. A moratorium that effects less than 1% of the producing wells in the GOM, obviously a blow to local businesses of epic proportions. Over …
There’s another reason Obama got spanked hard by some secular media heads— he dared invoke the nation to pray for courage— he dared to ask God for guidance through our latest eco-clusterfuck— to the dawning of a brighter day.
The DNC keeps hope alive with their second tv commercial about the Rethug apology tour. First DNC ad capitalizing on Rep. Joe Barton’s apology to BP CEO Tony Hayward Creating ads for the DNC has got to be the easiest and sweetest gig in the biz.
