Bob McCarty Writes

Morning headlines offer hodge podge of news: Bird, Swine, Human Flu-Mix Sickens 7 in Calif., Texas — If this isn’t bio-terrorism, I’ll eat my hat.* Bronx Zoo evicting hundreds of animals – Now, the question is, “Will they be deported back to their countries of origin?”  If the system for animals works anything like the [...]

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I added Odiogo‘s every-post-is-a-podcast tool to this blog tonight.  Now, simply by clicking on the “Listen now” button below each BMW headline, you can listen to posts being read by a slightly-computerized voice. While I realize that this tool has a little bit of trouble pronouncing some words, handles some abbreviations poorly and reads the [...]

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While in Western Colorado last week, I told a dinner-hour gathering of bloggers, reporters and public relations types that I had set up a Twitter account several months ago but couldn’t force myself to keep the darn thing updated.  In fact, I went so far as to say I didn’t think I’d ever embrace “Tweeting.”  [...]

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The non-partisan Reform Institute‘s National Energy Symposium drew more than 45 corporate executives, policymakers and industry experts to Washington, D.C., Tuesday to openly discuss the nation’s energy, environmental and economic challenges.  It appears, however, that representatives of the nation’s largest oil and natural gas exploration and production firms (a.k.a., the “fossil fuelers”) were strangely missing [...]

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It’s a must-read article for anyone serious about homeland security.*  “It,” in this case, is a post published today by Bruce Perens.  Notably, it includes an insightful analysis of a little-reported infrastructure attack that took place just after midnight April 9 in the Northern California city of Morgan Hill. Though I won’t pretend to be [...]

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Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, announced today at a press conference with Sens. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), David Vitter (R-La.) and John Ensign (R-Nev.), his intention to introduce an amendment to S.386, the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009 (FERA), a measure that would require recipients of [...]

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“Big Oil” is under siege.  Nowhere, however, are the stakes higher than in Ecuador.  Within six months, a judge in that country is expected to issue a decision in a class-action environmental lawsuit that could cost San Ramon, Calif.-based Chevron Oil Company $27 billion. To learn more about the case, I will soon travel with [...]

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