Co-Wanker Of The Day (Part 2)
Joe Barton: BP’s CEO, Tony (I want my life back!) Hayward is testifying today before a House Committee, and he just received a heartfelt apology from one of his most loyal subjects. Joe Barton (R....
View ArticleTony Hayward Blames Everyone Else
Tony Hayward attempts to spread blame across the drilling industry like his failed rig has spread oil across the Gulf of Mexico: BP maintains that it alone does not deserve all the blame for the April...
View ArticleWon’t Someone Think Of The Oil Companies?
Shorter Jonah Goldberg: The offshore drilling ban is the real tragedy of the Gulf. No, really. Because he has cheerfully embraced Michael Grunwald’s happy propaganda story about how the oil is all...
View ArticleTone-Deafness: We Haz It
The Obama administration continues to demonstrate their ultra-keen political instincts and compassion for the common man. First up, Ken Salazar going to bat for the oil industry: July’s decision...
View ArticleBP = Blackmailing Polluters
Nice, real nice: BP is warning Congress that if lawmakers pass legislation that bars the company from getting new offshore drilling permits, it may not have the money to pay for all the damages caused...
View ArticleThe Tea Party’s Totally Rational Climate Denialism
Someone tell me again how the teabaggers are some kind of spontaneous populist uprising that reflects America? Here’s one reacting to Baron Hill (not exactly a raging liberal as Democrats go) saying...
View ArticleGreat Moments In Whitewash
Amazing. The lead investigator for the presidential panel delving into the BP oil spill said on Monday that he had found no evidence that anyone involved in drilling the doomed well had taken safety...
View ArticleCorruption Kills
Scarecrow uses the failure of Japan’s nuclear regulatory regime to remind us of the critically important point that political corruption isn’t just about greedy corporations cutting shady deals to skim...
View ArticleWhat Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Who needs serious regulation of nuclear power plants? After all, it’s not like anything really bad could happen if we let energy companies set their own safety standards, right? Amazing that after...
View ArticleStop The War On Global Warming!
Yet another Great Moment In Republican Framing: The Stop the War on Coal Act, H.R. 3409, was approved in a 233-175 vote, although as usual, the bill many Democrats described as anti-environmental still...
View ArticleWhistling Past The Great Filter
I am just not buying the happy theory that we have already passed through “The Great Filter” that prevents the rise of spacefaring civilizations. It completely overlooks the possibility that advanced...
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