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British Petroleum’s Hands
When I was a young boy growing up in Wharton County, my family would once a year drive to Matagorda Bay and buy shrimp off the boats. We’d take them back to our family farm, clean them, eat some that...
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Nobody Knows the Trouble We’ll See
We might be powerless. The oil flowing out from the seabed in the Gulf of Mexico may be under such great pressure that we do not possess technology to stop the tragedy. Chances are quite good we have...
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Bars for BP
As oil continues to gush out of the wellhead more than five thousand feet below the location where the Deepwater Horizon floating drilling platform exploded April 20th, the nation is working fervently...
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A Troubling Pattern in America’s Obama Story
George W. Bush lost the popular vote in 2000 and was appointed president by the conservative U.S. Supreme Court. A sanctimonious pundit class tells us it is crabby, unpatriotic and uncivil to dwell...
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Hey Great Britain, It’s About Lives, Not Politics
So, a British company all but destroys the U.S. Gulf Coast, threatening the lives and livelihoods of many and killing ocean wildlife, and the Brits are worried about their dividends? You might call it...
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Evangeline, the Oil Spill and Highway 61
Evangeline, by George Rodrigue I was 18, skinny, out of money and in New Orleans for the first time after some Appalachian adventures and a visit to Nixon’s D.C. I faked a cocky walk into a French...
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The World Is Rich, But It Is Not Mine
This world is rich, but it is not mine. Where I live, hungry children are crying I am not angry, at my own condition I just want people to know my position. Procol Harum, from a statement by South...
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Oil Spill and Flag…Worth a Thousand Words
From Atlantic Monthly. More pictures can be found here. Related Articles: The World Is Rich, But It Is Not Mine Tarballs and Tainted History Evangeline, the Oil Spill and Highway 61 A Requiem for the...
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The Anxieties of X-treme Winter
We’ve had a long gray cold winter here in Northern California. I know, the rest of the country has been buried under blizzards, and I shouldn’t complain about the X-treme deluges and the frosty...
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