Barack Obama, British Petroleum, David Vitter, Disenfranchised, Gulf Coast, Macondo Well, Oil Spill

Senator John Cornyn, still an asshole…

Remember last June, when the Macondo Well was still spewing oil, and Tony Hayward appeared at the congressional hearing where Rep. Joe Barton, R-Tx apologized to Tony’s company for the actions of the Obama administrations, suggesting the creation of British Petroleum’s $20 billion dollar escrow fund came only after a White House “shakedown”? Yeah, and then everybody freaked out (even Boehner) and Barton backtracked reporting … Continue reading Senator John Cornyn, still an asshole…

Unknown's avatarDrake Toulouse1 Comment
Headlines, New Orleans, New Orleans Saints, NFL

Saints Versus Bears…

Since every team in the division lost, can we just pretend the season starts today? A destruction of the Chicago Bears would sure be a nice place to start…because as I wander around the windy city on my day off tomorrow, it would be a beautiful thing to wear some Saints gear and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh again kinda steely-eyed creepy…you know, … Continue reading Saints Versus Bears…

Unknown's avatarDrake ToulouseLeave a comment
British Petroleum, Disenfranchised, Gulf Coast, Macondo Well, Oil Spill

BP’s clean-up refusal: thanks for the metaphor…

When Tropical Storm Lee created a storm surge over Labor Day weekend, the surf brought in a new array of tar balls to some Gulf Coast Beaches. The Alabama communities of Gulf Shores and Orange Beach, still cleaning up this new oil from the Macondo Well, have requested British Petroleum bring in more beach cleaning machinery to ensure the clean-up is done right. British Petroleum … Continue reading BP’s clean-up refusal: thanks for the metaphor…

Unknown's avatarDrake Toulouse1 Comment
California, LIVE YOUR LIFE, Music

Wistful night on the crisis lines…

Yep, working the Adult Crisis lines tonight all by my lonesome, waiting for the phone to ring in an office building I’ve known off and on for twenty years, and thinking about being elsewhere…just missing a late night walk up Polk Street to California, take a right and climb up and over Nob Hill to Kearney, then take a left and run it straight up to … Continue reading Wistful night on the crisis lines…

Unknown's avatarDrake ToulouseLeave a comment
British Petroleum, Coast Guard, Control the Information, Gulf Coast, Macondo Well, Oil Spill

I have a sneaking suspicion…

…that this whole Deepwater Horizon thing, the oil spill? Yeah, I think British Petroleum’s to blame. Could be due to the testimony of their own employees: “BP petrophysicist Galina Skripnikova in a closed-door deposition two months ago told attorneys involved in the oil spill litigation that there appeared to be a zone of gas more than 300 feet above where BP told its contractors and … Continue reading I have a sneaking suspicion…

Unknown's avatarDrake Toulouse2 Comments
Apocalypse, but what a charmer, Class War, Democracy, Disenfranchised, LIVE YOUR LIFE

Not my usual subject matter, but sometimes one can’t resist…

So, I keep reading these bits about Madonna, about her freaking out because some fan gave her hydrangeas, as in flowers, and it turns out she hates hydrangeas so she trashed the flowers in front of the fan, and not content to humiliate the person once, she then made a spoof video where she trashed the flowers again so the moment could live on in … Continue reading Not my usual subject matter, but sometimes one can’t resist…

Unknown's avatarDrake ToulouseLeave a comment
2012 Presidential Race, And now a word from our sponsors, Barack Obama, Class War, Democracy, Disenfranchised, Homeland Security

9-11 Inc.

Ten years ago on September 11th, I was in a place not unlike many Americans, essentially surrounded by Europeans in a Las Vegas youth hostel trying desperately to sleep off a hangover…but that morning I heard people chattering, something about burning buildings, plane crashes and how it all looked like a movie, and through my bleary-eyed state, at first I thought they were describing a movie, until it became clear they were … Continue reading 9-11 Inc.

Unknown's avatarDrake ToulouseLeave a comment