Solid Business Thinking BP
According to the Houston Chronicle BP saved $5 million by taking shortcuts while drilling the Macondo/Deepwater Horizon well. BP stock has lost $80 billion. $20 billion placed into an escrow for damages. $2.5 billion in clean up costs to date. Solid business decision there BP.
Senator Byrd’s Speech On Eve of Iraq War
Many may only thing of Senator Robert Byrd as being a former member of the KKK. Against desegregation. Clearly it is impossible to not note those items when reflecting on his life. Many younger people may recall something else from Byrd’s past, that on March 19, 2003 as we neared the start of the Iraq ...
The End of Bluefin Tuna?
Paul Greenberg at the New York Times explores the current state of fishing for bluefin tuna and it’s not looking good. Tuna then are both a real thing and a metaphor. Literally they are one of the last big public supplies of wild fish left in the world. Metaphorically they are the terminus of an ...
