Posts tagged Scam

I was quite distressed last year about the BP oil spill. I honestly had a hard time bringing myself to write about it at the time. But after months, they managed to get the temporary cap in place, and suddenly the story was dead. Nobody wanted to talk about the underwater oil plume, or the [...]

Well, it’s been a while since I last commented on the situation in the Gulf so it is probably well past time for an update. As of a few weeks ago there is a temporary cap that seems to have managed to stop the oil gusher. I did not make a joyous post right away [...]

If you’re wondering why the “n” in Mayan is in parenthesis in the title, it’s because it should in fact be Maya, but media more typically uses the popular, but incorrect, “Mayan.” This is a relatively small mix up compared to all of the excitement about a supposed “Mayan Prophecy” for world shaking events of [...]