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A (Call And) Response To “White Savior Industrial Complex”

March 21, 2012

While appraising items made in, say, Sri Lanka, the Dominican Republic or China for purchase, I wonder who made it, under what conditions, how they live everyday and, almost concurrently, how this purse will look against a pair of slacks in my closet back at home or that hard drive will satisfy my space requirements, [...]

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Halloween 2011: Coastline Retreat Is Scary, Kids!

October 29, 2011

It started with me walking across the family room in a nude bathing suit and D looking up from his laptop with a “What the …” “I’ll be right back,” I said, putting on flip flops before walking into the frigid-by-Texas-drought-standards garage. “There’s some makeup in the car that I need.” And D got that [...]

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Québec City Was Founded On A High Cape Of Utica Shale

July 18, 2011

Québec City sits between the Laurentian highlands of the southeastern Grenville Province of the Canadian Shield and the Appalachian Mountains that were formed during the Taconic and Acadian orogenies. Bedrock here is the Upper Ordovician Utica shale that “overlies the predominantly shallow marine carbonate facies of the Cambrian-Ordovician St. Lawrence Platform” (or St. Lawrence lowlands).The [...]

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The Morganza Spillway Is Now Open

May 14, 2011

Morganza Floodway Travel Times, a photo by Team New Orleans, US Army Corps of Engineers on Flickr. The Pointe Coupee Banner | Corps directed to open Morganza Spillway The Morganza Spillway has been opened to protect Baton Rouge and New Orleans from the Mississippi River potentially overflowing its carefully-carved banks in these cities. According to [...]

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Stuff Of Interest Today

May 6, 2011

Neil Gaiman is a renowned British author. He is also an American creator, who writes great books, sells them, makes money, and most importantly, knows exactly what his time is worth. So, clutching our political aprons over Gaiman’s $45,000 fee to address a group of people at a Minnesota public library, while saying “Tally ho, [...]

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May Flowers In Texas

May 6, 2011

Next year. The (cold) drought here is so bad this desert rat craves rain, heat and its accompanying humidity. Shorts, tank tops, barbequed ribs and cold beer now! How else is a former Kuwaiti resident to celebrate the death of Osama bin Laden? Screw that, I’m more worried about the impact of the Mississippi River [...]

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Rally To Just Kinda Be Ourselves For One Day, Part II

November 2, 2010

The costumes. This is why you have to go vote today. So I stop inflicting these nerdy, quadruple-entendre getups on you. The sad part is D’s costume didn’t take all that much effort and HE got high fives and “Duuuuude” all day long, while people came up to me and said, “What are you?” (or [...]

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Day 150 Unvanished, Unfinished

September 16, 2010

Untoward. But not unfathomable. We, in these here parts, are accustomed to years-long aftermaths and revelations, after all. WDSU.com | Government Accused Of Bungling Spill Evidence: Companies Say Failed Blowout Preventer Not Adequately Preserved al.com | Oil spill claims czar: “I over-promised and under-delivered” Meanwhile, back in the real world where people live and die [...]

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Day 106 The Oil Hasn’t Vanished

August 3, 2010

The oil has not vanished. I repeat: The oil has not vanished. The Gulf of Mexico’s summertime dead zone is twice as big as last year’s. Think about it: How can 206 million gallons of crude vanish in 19 days? 205.8 million gallons of oil flowed into the Gulf of Mexico = 2.37 million gallons [...]

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Day 101

July 29, 2010

LiveScience | What Will Happen During the Next 100 Days of the Oil Spill? … scientists say it could take decades to comprehend the toll the last 100 days took on wildlife — from sea turtles to bacteria. Currently, oil covers approximately 638 miles (1,026 kilometers) of Gulf shoreline, according to the Deepwater Horizon Incident Joint [...]

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