Category Archives: Toxics

You Can Hide, But You Can’t Run

5/12/2010 – 9:57 am

Now that BP’s jury-rigged contraption to contain its massive Gulf of Mexico oil spew has failed, the company’s only resort is to continue pumping massive amounts of dispersant into the water near the wellhead, in an attempt to – what exactly? The dispersant goes by the trade name “Corexit.” It’s supposed to be a pun […]

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Missile Envy

2/21/2008 – 10:45 am

Last night, a Standard Missile 3 rocket, launched from the USN Lake Erie, an Aegis-class cruiser in the Pacific Ocean west of Hawaii, struck a disabled spy satellite 150 miles over Earth. It is hoped the missile destroyed the satellite (confirmation of a “kill” will be made later today) and saved the planet from peril. […]

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Live the Dream!

2/6/2008 – 2:23 pm

It’s snowing in Burlington today, but it’s never too early to begin planning for spring break. This year, you might want to throw the kids in a plane and hustle on down to EPCOT at Walt Disney World. (EPCOT, btw, stands for “Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow” – a rare “triple redundancy” and evidence of […]

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Next To Godliness

12/20/2007 – 11:17 am

This isn’t a Christmas story, per se. It’s about soap. It takes place in Louisiana in June, far removed from the climate and symbols traditionally associated with Christmas, but the more I contemplate the “Christmas spirit” the more this story pushes to the front of my mind. The June in question was 2001, before specific […]

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