May 2010
11 posts
BP, Coast Guard Officers Block Journalists From... →
defendneworleans:
Emerging reports are raising the question of just how much of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill journalists are able to document.
When CBS tried to film a beach with heavy oil on the shore in South Pass, Louisiana, a boat of BP contractors, and two Coast Guard officers, told them to turn around, or be arrested.
“This is BP’s rules, it’s not ours,” someone aboard the boat said....
Typically more efficient than those around them,... →
Somewhere in Beaconsfield, GK Chesterton is giggling in his grave. [“Cat Among the Radicals” — Sydney Morning Herald]
The Redneck Manifesto →
“The cultural grease drippings of the 1960s will no longer be applicable in the twenty-first century. But class politics will. Anti-industrialism will. Redneck rural individualism, once thought to be a sure sign of mental retardation, will seem wise in the face of seething overpopulation. There are a lot of first-class philosophers hiding in the hills, too smart ever to come down into the city....
Law and Order cancelled →
Booooo.
I often hear people talking about Facebook as... →
[Gizmodo — “Top Ten Reasons You Should Quit Facebook”]
The complete Calvin & Hobbes, online, searchable... →
“I think the most important thing we can do is to treat Americans as citizent and...”
– Bill Moyers
April 2010
11 posts
BP oil spill ruins their livelihoods, Gulf... →
claytoncubitt:
“Either the seafood industry or the oil industry — that’s the only jobs down here, so I guess I’m trying to move from seafood to oil today,” said Bernel Prout, 55, a fisherman and Venice native.” (via defendneworleans)
See also: BP CEO earns $3k/hour last year, workers are being offered $10/hour to clean up BP spill
Also also: I guess BP’s “Beyond Petroleum” rebranding should...