Dr. Seuss reaches out from the grave for his take on the BP‘s Oilmaggedon, as captured by this mention of his book, The Lorax, by the School Library Journal: Celebrate the Lorax Project Student Earth Day 03/09/2009 Long before saving the Earth became a global concern, Dr. Seuss spoke about this issue through his book The Lorax (Random, 1971), which …
HuffPo: The former eBay CEO has spent more than $81 million so far – $71 million from her personal fortune. And if she wins the GOP nomination on Tuesday, it marks only the halfway point in her quest for office. Eighty one million freakin dollars for a freakin gubernatorial primary! Why anyone with so much personal wealth would want to …
Mississippi’s Boss Hog Haley Bourbor is giving BP CEO Tony Hayward a run for his money for most asinine comment about the catastrophe both of them helped unleash on the Gulf of Mexico. Upon viewing the first traces of oil from the Macando well blowout to hit the Mississippi coast at Petit Bois Island Wednesday, Barbour remarked: “By God’s grace, …
Rep. Alan Grayson introducing his War Is Making You Poor Act on the House floor As we look back to honor the fallen on Memorial Day, the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan grind on. Afghanistan, in its ninth year, is already the longest war in US History and Iraq, at seven years, is not far behind. On May 21, …
Matt Simmons’ interview on Bloomberg News Forty days and forty nights– that’s how long the rupture of BP’s Macondo Well has been spilling its oily guts into the Gulf of Mexico at a rate of nearly a million gallons per day. That is, if you accept the twice revised estimates of BP and the US government that initially pegged the …
