Month: June 2010

Could a BP Tsunami Wipe out Florida?

It reads like a script from some eco-disaster summer blockbuster movie. A 20 square mile methane gas bubble under astronomically high pressures is trapped deep below the surface of the earth. Along comes a greedy...

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Alaska, The Niger Delta & The Party of BP

American Conservatives from Joe Barton to Rand Paul and Sarah Palin have expressed outrage that the President Obama would use the the power of his office to hold BP accountable to the residents of the Gulf Coast. They are...

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Open Thread

Still no power. I guess it wasn’t a tornado. Just hurricane force winds. What are you doing this weekend?

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Obama Cancels Withdrawal, Peace No, Petraeus

The U.S. being the U.S., it would be smart not to look with ‘peacenik’ optimism on Afghanistan disarray and Obama’s stubborn pursuit of a failed and fraudulent strategy there, but probably more realistic to...

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