- Petition: Destroying our gulf shouldn’t be a tax write-off. Tell BP to pay their fair share.
- One year ago today, BP's oil began to pour into the Gulf of Mexico. It did not stop for 87 days.
Today, economic and environmental devastation remain. Thousands of Gulf Coast residents cope with massive health problems from oil and toxic dispersants.
BP, on the other hand, just scored a nearly $10 billion dollar tax credit, by writing off its "losses" incurred from the tragedy.
$10 billion is the entire annual budget of the EPA, whose funding was just slashed in the continuing resolution. It is almost one third of all the cuts in the continuing resolution. …
- Mary Surratt | About.com Women’s History
- "Robert Redford's new movie, The Conspirator, debuted last week, with Robin Wright as the main character, Mary Surratt. A Civil War movie with a female central character, one who is actually drawn from history!"
- Wordless Wednesday – First Woman Executed | About.com Women’s History
- Mary Surratt was the first woman to be executed by the United States federal government. She was convicted as a co-conspirator with Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth, though she asserted her innocence.
- Botanical Wednesday: Acrobatic trans-species sex! – Pharyngula
- Let's turn this into a kinky porn blog with a titillating photo of a gecko servicing a Trochetia flower.
[My bookmarks live at delicious.com/camryl. In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. Also, signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
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