Emelle Hazardous Waste

Sometime you learn new things about your home state. Sometimes those things break your heart.
Emelle.
I’ve never been there. Evidently, the 2000 census says only 31 people live there.
Emelle: site of great sadness, threat to us all.
1978. Enter Waste Management. There is a lot to say about this company. What exists on the Interwebs is not [...]

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Hey Hey Hey Hey Ladies!

Women (or, the vaginally-enriched as I like to call them) have got it made in America. Once Emma Goldman solved it all or whatever. Plus, Mother’s Day!
Well, evidently the womens, target of so many commercials, still have their hand out. Well, their hands are doing something, if nothing else than smacking the shit out of [...]

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One Katrina Silver Lining

Everyone knows that the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina is one of the most reprehensible tales from an eight years jam packed with reprehensible tales. The heroic tales of individual courage are properly overshadowed by two things: 1) the idle standing by of the many while the few (and one of America’s best cities) died [...]

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More cash, another clunker

For the first few months, the Obama administration seemed to be a mirror of the President himself – in control, cool, confident, reasonably together (if predictably conservative). Things ticked along pretty seamlessly, perhaps because they were being conducted in secret, or because people are bored with our two wars, or because there wasn’t a whole [...]

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Huh? Evidence? What Evidence?

It’s funny to listen to the Sotomayor confirmation hearings with all of the absurd quibbling over tiny little details about jurisprudence and caselaw. Senators like to show that they (roughly) understand general legal concepts and they compile sets of questions about legal footnotes and dicta and so on and so on.
This academic and very public [...]

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Now, More Than Ever

Another sunset has given way to a new day. The sleepers have awoken. You are now one day older, nearer to death but wiser. The world has reset and we are looking out at a vast new panorama of opportunity.
You gird yourself for the coming day: meetings, phone calls, maybe some traffic. There will be [...]

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Top Katrina Criminals

Hurricane Katrina is one of our nation’s great tragedies. From the massive storm itself, to the catastrophic mismanagement of the immediate response, all the way through the continued long-term intentional neglect of the poor, the entire arc of the story is one wreathed in a particular swampy blend of horror and dismay.
Certainly there are plenty [...]

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Dipshits Run The World

Every once and a while, I am reminded of the vast limitations of my existing feelings of alienation from the part of the world I find myself in.
Often, I think of myself as an Alabamian. I was born here, raised here, and have lived in the state for the past several years after just enough [...]

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Dante Stallworth: No Justice

There are all sorts of injustice.
There is the “Michael Jordan pushing off against Byron Russell” variety. This can be seen in any variety of sporting events, whether talking about the Miami Heat getting all the calls in the finals or the NCAA having it out for the University of Alabama. This is a fairly minor [...]

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Links Roundup

1. I have been doing some thinking about Genetically Modified Organisms lately. It remains a serious source of frustration that the issues surround GMOs creep along behind the scenes of public awareness. It seems like it’s easy to track recent developments in the war or judicial nominations, but when it comes to something as important [...]

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