Lately President Bush has been talking about reducing American dependence on foreign oil by drilling offshore for it. But what’s the keyword in the phrase “reduce our dependence on foreign oil”? If you’re an oil tycoon like the president, your answer would be “oil”–as in, we need to go get more of it. The actual [...]
Entries from July 2008
Offshore Off Topic
July 17th, 2008 · No Comments
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Romney Credits McCain for Inventing the “Surge”
July 17th, 2008 · No Comments
McCain has been getting a lot of credit for the so-called “surge” but Mitt Romney has taken the back-slapping to the next level. Apparently McCain “authored the philosophy” of the surge. I’m not really sure what exactly that means but the implication is that McCain invented it. This kind of reminds me of Al Gore’s [...]
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Tell Me Only the Good News, Science
July 8th, 2008 · No Comments
The scientific method has given us a lot of great stuff. Thanks to science we now live longer, travel farther, eat better and blow up more stuff than ever before. It has gotten to the point that in our culture, we pretty much put our lives in the hand of science every day. We do [...]
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