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In between his hours tending his Zen garden and Tai Chi regiments, Daoist monk and rightful heir to the throne of Carolina The South Alvin Greene questions the nature of wealth — specifically, why hasn’t he been paid for his interviews? Congressional hearings were held this week, providing ample time for congressional grandstanding. Will no [...]
OH LOOK SOMEONE FROM CODE PINK DID SOMETHING THEATRICAL AND IRRITATING, WHAT A SURPRISE: Alaska-based oil monster Lisa Murkowski had her “resolution of disapproval” (is this a real thing with legal implications, or just a thing Murkowski made up to sound mean?) to stop the EPA from regulating carbon dioxide voted down by the Senate, [...]
RedState can’t get over Chris Christie’s no baloney governin’ style, especially his completely serious threat to “punch” the Teacher’s Union. What a man hunk … we hear gay wedding bells! [RedState] Who has time to blog as much as Matt Yglesias does? Media-saavy retired folk from the future and millions of grumpy unemployed people from [...]
Yes, governor, we do get it now! When you were leading thousands of morons in shouting “drill, baby, drill” (or, sorry, “drill,baby,drill”) and “drill here, drill now”, what you were trying to get at was that we should in no way be doing exploratory offshore drilling, baby, exploratory offshore drilling, because that’s dangerous. How could [...]
Obamar has given BP permission to commence OPERATION TOP KILL, which according to BP involves a bunch of “heavy drilling fluids” (gross) committing MURDER EVERYWHERE. It will take millions of hours to complete this risky drilling-fluid-cum-murder fucking cement bomb of death, and CNN will cover it all, to confuse you.
Well isn’t this fun. The moron tea-sipping CEO of Britishe Petroleumeshire, Tony Hayward, decided to take a Very Serious stroll along the terrifying, ruined oily death-beaches of the Gulf Coast, and then yelled “GET EM OUTTA THERE” at independent media reporters filming the awful, profit-destroying scene. Apparently he only “invited” the cameras for a press [...]
Child exorcist Bobby Jindal got to ride on the president’s helicopter on Sunday, which was super-exciting, but that awful oil spill is still about to destroy what’s left of Louisiana’s economy and environment. [White House Flickr]
Aha, we’ve been waiting for a comment from America’s most pandering oil-company cheerleader, and here we go. She knows how terrible these situations can be and is sorry for everyone down there, in the entire American coastal South, whoops. She knows.
Last night the Yankees baseball team won the competition that determines the best baseball team of all the other baseball teams! [New York Times] 600 UN staffers in Afghanistan will leave the country for a few weeks while the UN works to find them housing that will be harder to blow up. [Washington Post] Hurricane [...]
