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This has to be one of the most absurd things I've seen in a while ( Read more... ) -
random thought of the day
Paul Simon sings:
The Mississippi delta was shining
Like a national guitar
I am following the river
Down the highway
Through the cradle of the civil war
I'm going to Graceland
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Read in July
1) The Lexus and the Olive Tree - Thomas Friedman
2) Breaking Gridlock: Moving towards transportation that works - Jim Motavali
3) Dodger - Terry Pratchett
4) A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx - Elaine Showalter -
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Over 110,000,000 gallons of oil spilled in the US since 1990
This chart being almost two years out of date, I wonder what it would look like if you add in incidents of the last two years.
Unrefined bitumen is not legally classed as oil and therefore oil producers are exempted from paying for cleanup efforts resulting from leaksInterview with a ( Read more... ) -
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Just after last week's oil spill in Utah, there's an oil spill in Arkansas. Edit: Oh, and Minnesota. So that makes three significant oil spills in less than three weeks.
But yeah - let's keep building these pipelines. What could possibly go wrong?