BP and Big Brother (Update)

Big Brother embodied by Captain qua Admiral Kangaroo Allen Ever since an ancient, giant methane bubble traveling at the speed of sound sunk the Deepwater Horizon, an aircraft carrier sized oil drilling platform leased by BP, the transnational corporation has mounted a persistent campaign of coverup and denial. From deliberately underestimating the volume oil and gas unleashed by the explosion …

Declaration Of Independence From BP And Oil

Convicted felon BP holding a gun to the head of the US  economy Today as I was hanging the Stars and Stripes from my front porch, reflecting on the event 234 years ago that precipitated this most national of national holidays, colonial America’s  Declaration of Independence from their English overlords, I was struck by the resonance it has to the …

They Will Be Assimilated

Note:  We’re having a weird WP problem with our latest posts.  If you don’t see a picture here, you wont be able to tell us— because comments stopped working too.  —FRACK! If the Borg ever show up on our planet, Urantia, seeking to absorb intelligent life into their corporate, hive like mind, our best chance of survival is to offer …

Judge Marty Feldman Rules On Oil Moratorium (Update)

Judge Marty’s investment hump is showing Yesterday, US District Court Judge Martin “Marty” Feldman issued a preliminary injunction against  Interior Secretary Ken Salazar‘s drilling moratorium against 33 deep water exploratory wells in the Gulf of Mexico. A moratorium that effects less than 1% of the producing wells in the GOM, obviously a blow to local businesses of epic proportions. Over …

How Rethugs Would Govern

The DNC keeps hope alive with their second tv commercial about the Rethug apology tour. First DNC ad capitalizing on Rep. Joe Barton’s apology to BP CEO Tony Hayward Creating ads for the DNC has got to be the easiest and sweetest gig in the biz.

A Tale of Two Sloppy Joes

Whoring for multinationals like BP has its limits, after all. You don’t call an escort service and have them deliver the goods to the family home door, broadcast live on cable tv and streamed around the world.

The Wave Of The Future

It is with no small amount of exasperation, anger, and sorrow of soul that I observe a few obscenely wealthy corporate oil executives have taking a huge defecation in the oceans of the world.