On March 29, an ExxonMobil pipeline carrying oil from Canadian tar sands ruptured in the town of Mayflower, Arkansas, northwest of Little Rock. Between 5000 and 7000 barrels of oil spilled into nearby waterways. ExxonMobil and the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality claim everything is...
Author: Erik Loomis
It's very exciting that the Romney Presidency would have been nothing more than an exercise in corporate cliches, with its leaderocity, core competencies, magnetic niches, and other meaningless words.
The whole "Mediterranean Diet," "Nordic Diet," or whatnot is pretty silly generally. How about just eating relatively healthy and getting some exercise? But if you are going to do one.
The country music response to the hippies led to many songs that ranged from belligerent to hilarious to bizarre. Such as Buck Jones' "A Box of Grass."
A couple of months ago, I noted how coal giant Peabody Coal had created a spinoff corporation called Patriot Coal with the explicit mission of sending it toward bankruptcy in.
As I've said before, the recycling business can be pretty nasty. We say something is "recycled," which really means "I think I did something good and now I don't have.
Um, no. Showgirls, as certain critical circles have begun to embrace, is not “so bad it’s good.” Showgirls is good, or perhaps great, full stop. But one of the more intriguing things about the film is that it has so widely and so consistently been...
There haven't been enough forestry posts here lately and since it's been determined that my interest in extremely obscure things that no one else in the world cares about is.
Like every day, the Republicans are moving forward in their plans to stay relevant in the 21st century. We have Phyllis Schlafly calling for a return to openly white supremacist.
It seems there's a general decline in the liberal media since the election, both at MSNBC and on liberal blogs. On the other hand, LGM readership is up slightly since the election and saw none of the expected post-election readership slump.
Well, this is disturbing to anyone who cares about the future of higher education: On Wednesday, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said the online courses could increase access and keep costs.
Here is more evidence that illegal marijuana plantations on national forest land leads to significant problems to wildlife: In the West Coast marijuana-growing region known as the Emerald Triangle, scientists.