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Let's say that you have a water well, and a leak from an underground tank at a nearby gasoline station has contaminated your water. Not to worry, says the station owner, for he can fix the problem by dumping a secret mixture of toxic chemicals into your well. Would you say "thank you" — or immediately dial 911 to tell authorities to come quickly with a large net and a straightjacket? Astonishingly, this insane scenario is playing right now. The "water well" is the Gulf of Mexico, the gas station contaminator is BP, and the t...
Keep talking, Rush — we love ya man! Rush Limbaugh, that is — the radio rattlebrain who led the right-wing's air attack on Barack Obama's health care reform campaign. Spewing venom, spittle and ignorance, Limbaugh used his microphone like a cattle prod, delivering jolt after jolt to the 24 percent of Republicans who now tell pollsters that they believe Obama "may be the Antichrist." For Rush, the health care fight was personal. In January, suffering with chest pains, the yackety-yacker was rushed to a hospital in Hawaii. Aft...
I know we're a nation of inveterate consumers, but who would buy pollution in a bottle? Well, millions of Americans do, to the tune of $11 billionworth a year. That's the size of our bottled-water industry, dominated by such giants as Nestlé and Coca-Cola. But wait, shriek industry PR flacks, our product is pure goodness, not pollution. What are you talking about?! Start with the little-reported fact that bottled water can contain a toxic mix of industrial chemicals never tested for safety. Also, many tests of bottled water...
You can knock us Americans down, but you can't keep us down. For example, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City were crashed to the ground on 9/11. But now, a new tower is rising from those very ashes — a soaring steel and glass monument to the American spirit, a powerful symbol of our national resilience. Well — except for the glass. A company named Beijing Glass got the government contract to provide the window panes that'll cover the first 20 stories of the tower. Yes, the monument to our national spir...