Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Haliburton references again?
- Tom The Impaler | 06/15/2010 @ 07:13Well, we don’t. It’s gonna happen again. We can reduce the risk, but we can’t eliminate it.
But we do make sure it doesn’t go on this long when it does. There should have been a worst-case scenario plan, complete with practice runs before we ever started drilling out there.
Famous last words: “Well that’ll never happen!”
Best idea I’ve heard is a backup relief well drilled simultaneously with any new well, and get started drilling them for existing wells now. There’s no excuse for not stopping such a spill in 24 hours going forward.
Yeah. I noticed the “Haliburton” reference — but it was during a finger-pointing session with the typical knee-jerk pointing AT Haliburton, so it worked out in the wash for me.
- philmon | 06/15/2010 @ 08:38What I had in mind was more along the lines of telling the hippies to fuck off. Why does it seem that option is consistently ruled out on a preliminary basis. We can’t tell the hippies to fuck off. Have to do whatever they say. All the time.
I struggle to think of any other advocacy group that possesses this magnitude of power. Nowadays that’s really saying something.
It’s a pretty simple parable from where I’m sitting, suitable for Brothers’ Grimm stories for ADD kids. We went to extraordinary lengths to keep from screwing up the environment…and to look wonderful as we went to these amazing lengths to avoid screwing up the environment. Result? We screwed up the environment. How do you pick out people who missed out on the lesson? They’re the ones who seem to believe if we get angry enough at BP and really put a terminal hurt on ’em, that will somehow fix everything.
- mkfreeberg | 06/15/2010 @ 08:45