OK, this article from our friends at that noted business magazine, Cracked, puts the KFC "Double Down" in context - and send you either on your way to McDonald's or straight to vegan-land!
Think this is all "off the menu" - some innovative companies actually capitalize on such things. Take
In-N-Out Burger's "Secret Menu" discussed in either hunger building (or pain-staking - depending on your perspective) detail:
Leave it to Bill Maher to have one of the best discussions on the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill in the context of the larger policy discussions and economic/ecological/energy impact it has and will have. Left-leaning - yes! But, still, one of the more informed discussions on the big picture of this big news story.
Well worth watching the whole clip at the Huffington Post by clicking on the link below:
OK, while there's impending doom from the oil spill, we might as well have one laugh out of this. Best one I've seen so far comes from Jimmy Kimmel. Watch below:
This is a great overview article from the BBC on the various methods that can be employed to both clean-up oil spills and to attack the source of the problem (that f$&^ing gushing, broken well-head). For now and going forward in time (unfortunately), this will be a great resource article on the options for authorities and oh yes, those BP execs (picture below having a briefing on the matter):
Great commentary! Except the real winner of the dubious title of "The Worst Week Ever, Thanks To The Fossil-Fuel Industry" might be NEXT WEEK, when the muck washes ashore, coats birds, floods oyster-beds, blackens white sand beaches, and destroys jobs!
Thanks BP! No disaster plan - one of the biggest screw-ups in the annals of corporate history!
This is a very good overview of the economic impact of the oil spill on Louisiana's commercial and recreational fishing industries. Unfortunately, it's gonna be catastrophic on our coast and it's people. Pray for all.
and for a video overview to get "up to speed," watch the two clips below with national perspectives on commercial fishing, seafood distribution, and restaurants in particular:
It goes without saying, you'd better have that oyster po-boy while you can! And again, do remember all the people here in Louisiana who will be impacted by this, and thanks for all the brave men and women in the Gulf and on the shore to try and stop it.
Not that we in Louisiana have a complex (what next, grasshoppers? locusts? And to make matters even worse, it's been blowing off the coast here like the "Ten Commandments" pic above for the past two days - blowing the glop closer to us!).
This is a very good essay on the history of our state and the many, many challenges we've had. This will be a big one - and sadly, tens of thousands of our citizens - who depend on the land and the water that is about to be fouled for a living - along with those who work for those "evil" Big Oil companies that have provided stable employment and good incomes for many, many of our families - will lose their livelihoods our of this disaster.
All I can say is pray for our state, our people, and yes, our wildlife - and send us some chemical and mechanical engineers who know how to shut-off that f%$#ing well-head five thousand feet below the surface.
