Tag Archives: Oil Spill

Mississippi Politics : Nasal Denial and Oily Delusion

Posted on May 15, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Graphic by Larry Ray / The Rag Blog.Mississippi Politics:Getting stinkier by the minute By Larry Ray / The Rag Blog / May 15, 2010 GULFPORT, Mississippi — Growing up in Texas I was sure politics couldn’t get any stinkier, any … Continue reading →

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Harvey Wasserman : The BP Dead Zone

Posted on May 12, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Before the Spill: Gulf of Mexico, 2009, from Destin, Florida. Photo ©2009 Mark Meyer.While our military rots in the wrong gulf:BP blows an apocalyptic gusher By Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / May 12, 2010 See ‘Ripple in still … Continue reading →

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From the Massey Blast to the BP Spill : Fossil Fuels are Killing Us

Posted on May 12, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Deepwater Horizon oil rig burning before sinking into the Gulf of Mexico. Photo from U.S. Department of Energy / Leonard Doyle / Flickr.Global response emerging:Fossil fuels are killing us By Alex Knight / The Rag Blog / May 11, 2010 … Continue reading →

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Ray Reece : Where’s the Outrage?

Posted on May 5, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

A dead Portuguese man-of-war floats on rust-colored oil off the Louisiana coast on Tuesday, May 4, 2010. Photo by Eric Gay / AP.Where’s the outrage?Just more ‘Happy Motoring’ Given the other threats currently menacing planet Earth and its so-called civilization, … Continue reading →

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VERSE / Larry Piltz : The Gulf

Posted on May 5, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Art from illusion360.The Gulf “The water was fouled at once,but they drank it none the less,a mess of mud and blood”– Thucydides Oil on the waterblood on the sandscruel and unusualbig business planseleven souls dyingthen millions moreof fellow live beingsdamn … Continue reading →

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Energy Drain : Peak Oil and the Big Spill

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Drill, baby, drill:Time to get serious about energy policy By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / April 3, 2010 Yesterday, President Obama went to Louisiana and met with officials there concerning the growing disaster caused by the explosion of … Continue reading →

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