The Gulf of BP (Update)

A young heron sits dying amidst oil splattering underneath mangrove on an island impacted by oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Barataria Bay, along the the coast of Louisiana on Sunday, May 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) # Yesterday, the Department of the Interior‘s (DOI) Inspector General (IG) released its investigation into the Lake Charles District Office of …

Will The Real Weiner Nose Please STFU

Another Beck limp-dick PR dream rally goes horribly wrong.

Another Great Moment In Corporate Douchebaggery (Update)

BP CEO Tony “Tin Ear” Hayward Unfrakkin believable: BP boss admits job on the line over Gulf oil spill The Guardian, Friday 14 May 2010 […] In an bullish interview with the Guardian at BP’s crisis centre in Houston, Hayward insisted that the leaked oil and the estimated 400,000 gallons of dispersant that BP has pumped into the sea to …

What Goes Around Comes Around

Speedy Gonzalez preparing to run circles around the new Arizona immigration law Beyond the problems of racial profiling inherent in Arizona’s new vhere are your papers law, aka Immigration Law 1070 , there are a number of other complications. Already discussed here is the huge impact it will likely have on the tourism industry (see comments section here ).  Executive …

Shorting The American Dream

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SEC Hooks Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs, “…a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity….” In July of last year, I wrote: Of course, Goldman was smart enough to know that the gravy train would derail soon enough and began shorting the very instruments they’d sold to their own customers. Seems like those Goldman’s chickens are coming home to roost: U.S. Accuses Goldman …

Blew Dawg Blanche

“Ah don’t answer teh mah party. Ah answer teh this.” Blew Dawg Blanche says, if yew wanna breng the pain, yew must whip it. FAYETTEVILLE — In America, corporations are people, too.  That’s why Arkansas Blew DawgSenator Blanche Meyers Lambert Lincoln has no problem putting their interests ahead of the people of Arkansas, who are pissed off at her on …