Plastic Farm Animals
The obvious cost of the US’s oil addiction is Operation Iraq Liberation (OIL) or, um Operation Iraq Freedom. For that we have 150,000 dead human beings, one country in ruins, and the other politically divided and financially stressed. The worst cost is, of course, what burning all this oil is doing to our atmosphere. Global […]
We now live in a place where we cannot drink the water. When I first tasted the tap water in our Midwestern US apartment, I spat it out. I know you are supposed to be able to drink the water in this country, but this tasted moldy. Since then, we’ve been filtering all our cooking […]
I found a little poetic justice in the following article, “In Face of Hurricane, a Rush to Secure Oil Operations, ” in which: “The many refineries along the coast of Texas were also bracing for a harsh lashing by strong winds, rain and flooding.” So, we’ve spent billions of dollars wrecking havoc on Iraq in […]
As the water recedes, and investigations dredge up more dirt, it is becoming apparent that when the hurricane hit, people ran around like chickens with their heads cut off. You’d expect the richest country in the world to have all their poop in one sock. But they don’t. They aren’t any more organized than the […]
A lot of people are wondering why everyone didn’t evacuate New Orleans. According to this article from today’s New York Times, nearly 100,000 people had no cars. Their option was to go to evacuation centers, like the Superdome, and await bus transportation out of the city. Unfortunately, only a fraction of the busses made it […]