The WaPo reports BP crapped 4.9 million barrels (205.8 million gallons) of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Or about a quarter of the U.S. daily consumption of oil, per CIA World Factbook 2008 estimate. But double that of India, whose population is significantly larger than my native land. So per capita, it’s pretty sad [...]

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Here is today’s In Contempt, another single panel on global warming. And today’s installment of the “Search Party” story of Wanderlost. I didn’t do a Lieberman cartoon, because, really, as much of a dick as he is, his exaggerated power merely underscores the political witlessness of the Democratic leadership. According to Mike Madden, here is [...]

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This moneyquote from Hollywood Elsewhere on the political implications of James Cameron’s Avatar is making the rounds. But it’s pretty juicy, so here goes: The political import of Avatar — and there’s no waving this aspect away because it’s right in your face start to finish, and especially in the third act — is ardently [...]

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Carl Zimmer takes issue with George Will’s “see no evil” approach to global warming and the Washington Post’s mamby-pamby fact-checking: Will ignores the fact that climate change is a noisy, long-term process. Today it is cooler at my house than it was yesterday. That does not mean that next week I will wake up to [...]

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Like a broken clock accurately reporting the time twice a day, globalization cheerleader Tom Friedman hits upon a kernel of truth: Let’s today step out of the normal boundaries of analysis of our economic crisis and ask a radical question: What if the crisis of 2008 represents something much more fundamental than a deep recession? [...]

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