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I was at Ikea the other day and couldn’t find where they’d put their damned 100 watt bulbs.

Ikea – IKEA TO PHASE OUT INCANDESCENT LIGHTING IN ALL US IKEA STORES BEGINNING AUGUST 1, 2010

EFF.

*howls*

Now I’ve just discovered a WHOLE LINE of products that they don’t carry at the Seattle store and it’s made me [...]

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Weekly Standard – Oil Messed Up Anger grows along the Gulf Coast at the Obama administration’s pathetic response to the largest oil spill in U.S. history. By Winston Groom (author of Forrest Gump, among others)

It has been apparent from the outset that the Obama administration had no wish to be responsible for fixing this [...]

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This has made the rounds (honestly I don’t even know if I might have already linked to it in another publication/blog) but here it is again for the old external memory drive, because it’s JUST. SO. AMAZINGLY. BAAAAD.

FP – Avertible catastrophe

Why does neither the U.S. government nor U.S. energy companies have on hand [...]

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NRO – Mark Steyn: The Unengaged President

Only the other day, Sen. George Lemieux of Florida attempted to rouse the president to jump-start America’s overpaid, over-manned, and oversleeping federal bureaucracy and get it to do something on the oil debacle. There are 2,000 oil skimmers in the United States: Weeks after the spill, [...]

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OC Register – Mark Steyn: Can Obama plug leak in his support?

What was it all the smart set said about Bush? Lazy and uncurious? Had Obama or his speechwriters chanced upon last week’s fishwrap, they might have noticed that I described the president as “the very model of a modern major generalist,” and [...]

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A good point:

I could be wrong, but I have the feeling President Obama has been sucked into a massive diversion with the oil spill. There’s not much he can do about it, and I’m guessing most people actually don’t care about it as much as they say. Yes, they feel sorry for [...]

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Lost’s Damon Lindelof pitches his treatment of the BP oil spill: Armageddoner!

FADE IN: We OPEN on Billy Bob. He doesn’t need the cane anymore — maybe he has some kind of Iron Man cyberleg or something. This will be important later. Just don’t ask me why. The phone rings. [...]

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Remember Elizabeth Becton? Of “Call me Liz” fame? Now we have Elizabeth Peuler:

Under intense media scrutiny, at least a dozen federal agencies have taken part in the spill response, making decision-making slow, conflicted and confused, as they sought to apply numerous federal statutes. In one stark example of government disputes, [...]

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Visualizing the BP Oil Spill in Seattle.

Pretty incredible.

Update: We can visualize an especially radioactive Puget Sound too:

NRO – Daniel Foster: Nuke It?

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EarthFirst Mourning Loss of a Tree – Crying & Screaming

Curtsy: Vanderleun,

Sane and thoughtful people upon viewing this quite naturally say, “Get me a gun. No, the bigger one.”

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An ad that so far seems to be avoiding the pre-Superbowl kerfufflage:

Curtsy: RC2’s Google Reader.

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This is long, but engrossing:

New Yorker – The Hunted Did American conservationists in Africa go too far? by Jeffrey Goldberg

It follows the story of a husband/wife pair of American grad students turned conservationists who moved to Botswana and then Zambia and got involved in fighting illegal ivory poachers. The first half quotes much of their own [...]

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The Corner – Mark Steyn: Congressional Oversight in Action

Watching the Commander of the Pacific Fleet’s deadpan face as Congressman Hank Johnson (D., Ga.) asks him about the danger of the island of Guam tipping over and capsizing is a glimpse of how the viziers to the loopier Ottoman sultans must have felt.

Here’s the [...]

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Brett McS reports that the Climate Skeptics Party is looking for a slogan. He favours “Aussies Saving the World,” which I’ve improved on slightly. Any others?

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Telegraph – Australia to prosecute over Chinese ship’s Barrier Reef shortcut

Those responsible for a Chinese ship that crashed on an illegal route at the Great Barrier Reef, leaking tonnes of oil, will be prosecuted, Australia said on Sunday.

It’s a good thing a couple people turned their lightbulbs off the other day. Cuz, you [...]

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