May, 2010 archive
Spill Here, Spill Now, Learn Maybe 0
Over at the Mudflats, Professor Rick Steiner has a cum mortem (can’t’ call it a post mortem cause the patient ain’t dead yet) of BP’s wild well.
Read it.
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
Still in the hight 400Ks.
(snip)
The four-week moving average for initial claims, a less volatile measure than the weekly figures, rose to 456,500 last week from 454,250, today’s report showed.
The number of people continuing to receive jobless benefits dropped by 49,000 in the week ended May 15 to 4.61 million, the lowest since March 27 and in line with the median forecast.
The continuing claims figure does not include the number of Americans receiving extended benefits under federal programs.
The story does not specifically mention unemployment in the oil barrens.
Factory Farms 0
26,000 chicks in one building.
I remember going with my father to meet the train to pick up a shipment of peepers. It was nothing like 26,000 or even 2600. Maybe 260:
I’ve driven past hundreds of those things.
26,000.
Wow.
My brother works for Ag, but I don’t know that he’s seen the inside of one of those places. His branch has to do with conservation, not chickens.
QOTD 0
John Kenneth Galbraith from the Quotemaster:
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
New Parking Lot at Assateague Island National Seashore 0
What happened to the old one? Bad weather.
Buried deep in the story is this (emphasis added):
Hinds said 115 yards of beach have been lost since 1962. Vestiges of former parking lots attest to this. Cables and a wellhead have been unearthed by the surf. And farther back from the ocean, concrete fragments intermingle with the sand.
Sea level rise. Yeah. Naturally occurring reasons. Hardly.
My father’s mother taught school on Assateague Island before she married my grandfather. (It’s pronounced ASS-a-teeg for those of you not from these parts.) That was back when Assateague was inhabited by persons as well as ponies.
I wonder whether it will still exist for her great-great-grandchildren to visit.
The Internet Is a Public Place 0
Users need to understand the tools they are using:
You see, Ashley used an iPhone application called Quip to send a topless picture to her husband who is serving in a warzone overseas. But Quip had a massive security flaw.
It works by storing pictures to a server. The flaw allowed users to type in any five letters or numbers and someone else’s picture would appear.
In October, thousands of pictures went public.
Spill Here, Spill Now, Flack Later 0
BP PR OMG WTF.
Derrick Z. Jackson reacts to BP’s ass-covering PR campaign. A nugget:
But until Deepwater Horizon exploded, BP’s idea of working tirelessly with government agencies was lobbying them to bypass environmental-impact reviews for well permits.
Driving While Brown 0
Explain to me once again all over again redundantly how it’s not about color and ethnicity.
Via the Booman Tribune.
Twits on Twitter, Oil Barrens Dept. 0
Fake Twitter accounts satirize BP.
“No” 0
To answer Bob Cesca’s question.
Dr. Dan Gottlieb on the Origins of Hate 0
Monday’s episode of Voices in the Family is well worth a listen. Frank Meeink’s story of who and why he fell in with skinheads is especially revealing.
From the website:
Follow the link to the website or click here to listen (MP3).
But Who’s Mary? 0
RSS fail.
QOTD 0
Bennett Cerf (from whom this blog gets its motto) via the Quotemaster:
Most of the things that are supposed to be so objectionable in books are things that every teenager, in the United States, not only knows, but has talked about at length in school, or on the way home from school.
Spill Here, Spill Now, Menu Choices Dept. 0
Meanwhile, Republicans continue to fluff big oil. They figure that, as long as keep whining, no one will notice that they are ultimately irrational.
Image via BartBlog.
