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Evangeline, the Oil Spill and Highway 61
Posted on June 14, 2010 | 5 CommentsI was 18, skinny, out of money and in New Orleans for the first time after some Appalachian adventures and a visit to Nixon’s D.C. I faked a cocky walk... -
Hey Great Britain, It’s About Lives, Not Politics
Posted on June 11, 2010 | 1 CommentSo, a British company all but destroys the U.S. Gulf Coast, threatening the lives and livelihoods of many and killing ocean wildlife, and the Brits are worried about their dividends?... -
Fatal Fantasies of Our Technological Omnipotence
Posted on June 1, 2010 | 4 CommentsBehind the public’s impatience with President Obama and the Gulf Oil spill lie dangerous fantasies of technological American angels that can fly in an fix everything and anything. The same... -
The Oil Spill and Political Paralysis
Posted on May 5, 2010 | 3 CommentsThe debate surrounding the tragic British Petroleum Gulf rig explosion and economy-wrecking oil spill has already spun off into an ideological wrestling match that’s got nothing to do with protecting... -
Nobody Knows the Trouble We’ll See
Posted on May 4, 2010 | 3 CommentsWe might be powerless. The oil flowing out from the seabed in the Gulf of Mexico may be under such great pressure that we do not possess technology to stop... -
British Petroleum’s Hands
Posted on May 3, 2010 | 4 CommentsWhen I was a young boy growing up in Wharton County, my family would once a year drive to Matagorda Bay and buy shrimp off the boats. We’d take them...