Gulf of Mexico | Gulf of Mexico
Jun.25.2010
Word is several Republican politicans are thinking of establishing an ``The Old Man and the Sea'' award, named, of course, for Hemingway's great short novel.
This comes from a friend, Farnsworth, who was once a lobbyist in D.C., but now writes about golf under a pseudonym. Farnsworth heard the news...
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Jun.18.2010
To say that the American consumer stood by helplessly for the past few years while Chevron, Exxon-Mobil, and big oil made record, gargantuan profits is almost a cliche, but it's true, and that fact makes Texas congressman Joe Barton's apology to British Petroleum even more egregious.
After all, it...
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Jun.14.2010
As we watch in horror as blundering BP sits on its hands while wildlife suffocates in the never-ending Gulf of Mexico spill, there’s a perhaps equal menace that occurs every summer in the same waters—a “vast tomb containing millions of bottom-dwelling sea creatures,” (World Resources Institute)—...
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May.30.2010
The President may have wrestled Afghanistan and Iraq to shaky standoffs but the newest skirmish in the heads- up display of Air Force One shows him losing the third Gulf war and losing bad. Taking shots from both sides- from both sides. Republicans are yelling at Obama for holding BP responsible...
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May.24.2010
The most moving song I know about the Gulf Coast is "Biloxi" by Memphian Jesse Winchester. When he resided here, Jesse went by the name of Jimmy Winchester and fronted a great garage band called the Church Keys. I was a freshman at Christian Brothers High School when he was a senior and a...
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May.20.2010
Like to eat Louisiana seafood? Swim with the Florida fishies? Enjoy a little oil in your cereal? No? Please answer the call for work at Poets for Living Waters today!
Poets for Living Waters is a poetry action in response to the Gulf Oil Disaster of April 20, 2010, one of the most profound man-...
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May.08.2010
They've tried fire and robots and domes and booms and drones and boxes and rosary beads and even panty hose stuffed with human hair but so far nothing has slowed the Deepwater Horizon oil spill from creeping towards our Southern Coast like a drunken lobbyist staggering towards a free seafood buffet...
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