Monday, June 14, 2010 at 10:29PM | by Otter Well, yeah. (Thanks, Michelle, for the link...)
BP, Environment, Oil Spill in Environment Wednesday, June 9, 2010 at 1:13PM | by Otter 
And let's keep perspective: the fact that BP has killed eleven humans is morally significant. The fact that they're about to kill off whole species and an entire rich and amazing ecosystem is also morally significant.
Saturday, June 5, 2010 at 10:08PM | by Otter From the Mailbag:
Do you subscribe to Helen Thomas's view that the Jews should "get the hell out of Palestine"?
No.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010 at 5:38PM | by Otter
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I've been asked lately in the mailbag (and Twitter) why I haven't responded to the BP hostile takeover of the Gulf of Mexico.
Really, it's because I can't write about BP without profanity.
BP, Environment, Louisiana, Oil Spill in Environment Thursday, May 27, 2010 at 7:18AM | by Otter
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The New Orleans Times Picayune (which is becoming the nation's expert at crisis reporting) lays out the case against BP in sum.
BP, Environment, Oil Spill, Times Picayune in Environment Tuesday, May 25, 2010 at 9:19AM | by Otter
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It's as bad as all that. Philippe Cousteau and Sam Champion investigate the way in which the cure is as bad as the disease.
Monday, May 24, 2010 at 2:17PM | by Otter 
Suddenly, everybody standing there was drawing closer together. I didn't see any feet moving, but we were all standing together where before we had each been turned outward, away into our private thoughts.
Sunday, May 9, 2010 at 8:01AM | by Otter Imagine that Calexico slipped Burl Ives the tongue. Or that Kansas got naked and went skinny dipping with Iron & Wine. Or that the eerie melodies of Appalachian / Celtic folk music got stoned and went restlessly looking for the 1980's with Liberace, the Washington State Lumberjack Men's Glee Club, and the Beatles.
Okay, that's not helpful. I admit that.
BP, Fleet Foxes, Recipe, Review, Shrimp, WWOZ in Musical Review & Recipe Thursday, May 6, 2010 at 3:04PM | by Otter 
You Did Not Die In Vain: We Have Cheaper Gas
I've (provisionally) defined love pretty broadly here: the energy for creating and sustaining life-giving relationships. The costs are high, there's no doubt about that. And it's interesting to see love's basic justice when our lifestyle is so out of balance.
Friday, April 30, 2010 at 10:24PM | by Otter Somebody set the Gulf on fire. It makes pretty lights.
I mean, really. Let's just throw a match on that baby and watch it burn.
Bill it as the BP Southern Lights Show.
BP, Environment, Gulf of Mexico, Oil Spill in Environment 
