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This week the media are commemorating the one-year anniversary of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Conspicuously absent from their retrospectives, however, are the on-air rants by reporters, commentators, environmentalists, and politicians, including no less a person than President Obama, about this spill causing an ecological catastrophe that will last a thousand years. By… Read more.
President Obama delivered his first Oval Office address last night, but it had to have been the most anti-climactic address any president has ever delivered from this office. After all, most presidents use this austere setting to inform the nation of grave new developments or to mobilize the public behind an issue of national importance. For example,… Read more.
During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama always seemed indifferent to media pundits swooning over him. But instead of acting scorned, they made a virtue of this diss by propagating a narrative about him as a preternaturally cool, intellectual dude who never gets fazed by anything: remember “no drama Obama”? Well, that was then. Because these same… Read more.
Ever since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20 there has been a surreal vigil for the beaches and marshlands along the Gulf Coast. Well, the oil has landed. And it is giving a new ecological meaning to the dreaded term,” Black Death;” because the environmental damage will be catastrophic. … Read more.
