The Red Brick Times

Now don't you worry your pretty little head about us damaging the ANWR while we drill it. We'll be reeeeel careful! Yeah, right. Oil projects may get less scrutiny: "A section of the energy bill approved by the House of Representatives last month would exempt many federal energy projects from the 1969 National Environmental Policy Act."

Maybe it's just me, but I would never have been aware of the above item if not for stumbling across mention of it on a web site. Is it not newsworthy? Doesn't it give yet more evidence of the neocon/republican plans to chip away our rights and heritage piece by piece? You'd think our major news outlets would be all over this.
You'd be mistaken. A more important story, one covered in depth by an ABC news segment last night and the front page of my local paper this morning, was the possibility of a judging scandal on American Idol. Not to say that this too isn't newsworthy. Perish the thought. Questions have to be answered:
1) Is Paula Abdul really screwing this guy?
2) Is this a put-up-job, an plan by Paula's publicist to get her some media ink?
3) Is it a carefully orchestrated attempt by ABC to get ratings during sweeps week?

and the most important question....
4) WHO GIVES A FUCK?

Man 'o man. It all seems so hopeless sometimes. 'Nuff to make you want to crawl into a corner and play with your balls.
Posted 6:16 AM by whatley (3) comments

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While driving along the sylvan back roads and gravel byways of Athens County, Ohio, I have crossed a stream that flows a startling blue. Why? Acid waste runoff from old coal mine shafts and tailing piles poisons everything even closely resembling life in the water. No microflora, no decomposing leaf mold, no moss, no amphibians, no crayfish, no tadpoles, minnows, water striders or fish. Now the "relaxed" enforcement will turn a blind eye to water runoff from methane exploration in coal seams. More of the same. Holy dying catfish and blind religious short-sighted suicide pacts!! As we sink into economic decline, the desparate will turn the wilds into the wastes of Mordor. But why are the energy companies (oil) booking huge, huger, hugest money piles? How much is enough? In the Capitalist ideal, too much is NEVER enough. Insanity.

Great balls of steel! What a great game!

# posted by  Andy : May 05, 2005 11:49 AM
 
I've been playing with my balls for years, but I really like this game so maybe they won't be so red anymore. Yes, I to have been torn between news of Paula's peccadillo and the startling story of the runaway Geogia bride (insert your own inappropriate comment about southern reproduction) that I missed the story about the oligarch's religion adled proxies voting them the right to poison the rest of us in order to make amounts of money they will never be able to spend while the Chinese gear up to clean our clock in every concievable area of endeavour. Great. Bread and Circuses. Too bad the public isn't as outraged about the real morals of its so-called leadership as it is about those of a has-been quasi-celebrity.

# posted by  A. O. : May 07, 2005 8:50 AM
 
"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."

-Voltaire-

# posted by  whatley : May 07, 2005 3:42 PM
 
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