New Orleans The wave of news comments was provoked by the release of an almost 400 page report by the National Oil Spill Commission in Washington head by former Florida Senator and Governor Bob Graham and former Environmental Protection Agency chief William Reilly during Republican administrations. In the inimitable words of Aaron Viles of Gulf …
Month: January 2011
Tens of Thousands of Email Subpoenas
New Orleans No wonder Wikileaks wants to open the door on everything on the internet, reading the news it seems that the damn door is already open wide and swinging according to an article in the Times by Miguel Helft and Claire Cain Miller about subpoenas and declining to nonexistent privacy protections for email, internet, …
Arizona is the 21st Century Mississippi
New Orleans I really love Arizona. It’s beautiful country with an amazing history and people. So was, Mississippi fifty odd years ago, but sometimes the fusion of time, land, and change produces hybrid aberrations that shake society to the core. We need to stop pretending that there’s not something serious wrong in the political and …