At the same time when Exxon Mobile is asking to be relieved of their $5 billion in damages for the 1989 Valdez oil spill, they just recorded the highest quarterly profit ever for a public company. Remember how it was supposed to be a bad quarter because of those pesky little hurricanes? Apparently, [...]
No, we are not talking about the Iditarod and its inspirational dog sled stories. The Idiotarod is considered a celebration of all things idiot. Beginning in 2004, hundreds of drunken idiots race from Brooklyn to Manhattan. This occurred again last Friday. From CBS:
Teams of five (four runners and one musher) per [...]
In honor of the latest governmental attempt to silence global warming experts and their research, this weeks video, Toast the Earth, comes from ExxposeExxon.com. From their website:
The Exxpose Exxon campaign is a collaborative effort of 15 of the nation’s largest environmental and public interest advocacy organizations to educate and activate Americans about ExxonMobil’s efforts [...]
From the NYTimes:
The top climate scientist at NASA says the Bush administration has tried to stop him from speaking out since he gave a lecture last month calling for prompt reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases linked to global warming.
The scientist, James E. Hansen, longtime director of the agency’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said [...]
This video is amazing.
Last November, Salmon researchers working on the Brooks Peninsula were using their remote-controlled mini-sub when it was attacked by a giant octopus. The $200,000, uninsured, piece of equipment was very sensitive and marine biologist, Mike Wood, knew right away the damage an octopus bite could cause. Thus, he reacted instantly [...]
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You can’t win a war without an army.
From the Associated Press:
Stretched by frequent troop rotations to Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army has become a “thin green line” that could snap unless relief comes soon, according to a study for the Pentagon.
Andrew Krepinevich, a retired Army officer who wrote the report under a Pentagon contract, concluded [...]
When Matt brought me the first season of Firefly on DVD, I thought it was just going to be another crazy sci-fi series. After the first two episodes, to my surprise, I fell in love. I have not seen a sci-fi series this good since Star Trek: The Next Generation and Stargate: SG-1. [...]
This is true investigative journalism.
From Glenn Greenwald:
In June, 2002, Republican Sen. Michael DeWine of Ohio introduced legislation (S. 2659) which would have eliminated the exact barrier to FISA which Gen. Hayden yesterday said is what necessitated the Administration bypassing FISA. Specifically, DeWine’s legislation proposed: to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to modify [...]
From the dark closet of J-Luv:
Monkeys learn to iceskate.
Well, great. Now the damn monkeys are just one step away from world
domination. That one step being, of course, learning to rollerblade.
(link goes to UK site for The Sun, where you’re always one click away from boobies, so buyer beware)
It turns out that the eight [...]