This from a relative of mine, a geologist, who knows what he is talking about: As for my ‘take’ on the oil spill…. first I was somewhat sympathetic about the ‘accident’…. but as info was released to indicate that at several crucial junctures, extremely BAD decisions were made, all three parties, BP, Transocean, and Halliburton are INCREDIBLY at fault. As the released data indicate, a poor cement job (to cement in the last string of…
You read it here first because I told you there was no contest when the Wall Street Journal said it was going to go after the New York Times – as if: New York Times Co. president and CEO Janet Robinson says The New York Times has not lost circulation following the Wall Street Journal’s launch of a New York section.
There is a saying that it is easier to bounce back from failure than from success. And if you look at all the celebrities going to hell in a handbasket, there just might be some truth to it. But take New Orleans after the failure of the levees flooded our beloved city – I’ve been very proud of where we have come from there. Now where we’ll go after the oil spill is anyone’s guess.…
It’s a real head scratcher, why would one of the largest O&G companies in the world cut costs and risk a disaster of catastrophic proportions? I sit here trying to understand (did they need more money?) (were they incompetent?) (were they clueless?) and no answers come to mind. Over and over again I hear Hayward say he wants his life back and I think of that poem that a friend wrote many years back about…
I received this letter via email from President Obama via Joe Biden’s email address yesterday Rachel — Yesterday, I visited Caminada Bay in Grand Isle, Louisiana — one of the first places to feel the devastation wrought by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. While I was here, at Camerdelle’s Live Bait shop, I met with a group of local residents and small business owners. Folks like Floyd Lasseigne, a fourth-generation oyster fisherman.…
That’s a joke this colleague of mine told me one time on his way to the can. Funny, huh. Anyway, Saturday is errand and chore day. So that means you work Monday through Friday, you do errand and chores on Saturday and on Sunday, you HOPEFULLY rest. Now that the entire European Union is facing collapse because of the Greek way of life vs the German way of life, I wonder if so goes the…
Israel is getting drummed from all sides for its embargo against the Gaza Strip. The entire world is standing on its soap box and telling them they are horrible and they need to do better. Meanwhile, in the U.S., we have an embargo on Cuba, where some of my family still live in dire poverty conditions – but no one is standing on the soap box pointing a finger now are they? And borders, what…
In the midst of BP and the daunting bad news that comes across CNN every day, the shakiness of the economic recovery that we are in, and botched wars and raids, we went to a wedding last night. It was at St. Louis Cathedral in the middle of Jackson Square in the heart of the French Quarter – just beautiful. There were some noticeable differences about this wedding from many others that I have attended,…
Tin is having his eye procedure next Thursday and now, we found out on Friday that T has to have knee surgery, so she is going to have that on Tuesday. From Monday to Friday we are going to be at the doctor every day. It’s nutty! But hopefully by the end of the week Tin’s eye will be fixed and T’s knee will be on the mend. I thought maybe Tin might not have…
I planted a lot of butterfly milkweed in the front yard and the other day was so delighted when I walked out and saw tons of caterpillars all over them. These are my monarchs that I can’t wait to sit on the porch and see. Then to my horror, as Tin and I were returning from going to hear Musica del Camera in the Botanical Garden, a friend was visiting with her children and one…