Gulf of Mexico

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Why Are New York City Restaurants Still Serving Bluefin Tuna?

WikipediaSoon a fossil is all we'll have left​The New York Times posted a great editorial this past Sunday about how something must be done to alleviate the plight of bluefin tuna which have dwindled by sixty percent in the past decade and how special hooks might help fishing boats in the Gulf ... More >>

Transocean Execs to Donate Their Bonuses, Sort of

​Earlier this week we mentioned the publicity trouble that Transocean, the company behind the Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico last April, killing 11 and spilling millions of gallons of oil into the ocean, had gotten into by declaring 2010 the "best safety year ever!" ... More >>

Transocean, Firm Behind Exploding Gulf Rig, Gives Execs Bonuses for 'Best Safety Year'

The explosion of Deepwater Horizon​As we head toward the one-year anniversary of the start of the BP spill in the Gulf (that was April 20, 2010, in case you've forgotten), it's almost as though we've completely forgotten about that old oil spill in the Gulf. Out of sight, out of mind! BP is pe ... More >>

BP Wants to Get Back to Drilling in Gulf Of Mexico

​BP is petitioning U.S. regulators to continue drilling in the Gulf of Mexico less than a year after the massive oil spill that killed 11 workers and caused massive environmental damage. The deal would be that BP would be able to resume pre-existing drilling operations in the Gulf in exchange for ... More >>

Mystery Piano Appears on Florida Sandbar

​Oh, remember this summer, when it wasn't snowing, when pianos filled the streets, when the well in the Gulf of Mexico was leaking unabated for months? We got a little flashback just now. Because suddenly there's a baby grand piano just sitting on a sandbar in Miami's Biscayne Bay. Via CNN, "W ... More >>

BP Blames Media, Rivals for Creating "Climate of Fear" Over Gulf Spill

Blame these pelicans for helping to create a climate of public fear. ​Following the news that BP has been busy donating money to politicians who deny the existence of climate change and global warming, BP's new chief exec Bob Dudley does us a Tony Hayward and blames the media -- and mean compe ... More >>

BP Well to Be Sealed By Saturday, Says BP

The good old days.​Hey, everybody, remember that well in the Gulf? The one that broke a while back, and leaked its oil everywhere, and got all over a bunch of birds, and fish, and shrimp, and people? Oh, come on, remember? Yeah, it was a long time ago that happened. Like, before the summer eve ... More >>

Keeping Score on the Gulf: Fishermen Speak Up About Cover-Ups & Compensation

Slick business.​ The oil is no longer flowing and it's time for the people who make a living off the Gulf of Mexico's riches to return to the water. But for some, going back to work isn't as easy as it sounds.

Barack Obama Turns 49 And A Lot Of Things Are Right With The World

​Birthdays should be spent in happiness and celebration, and the news cycle did just that for our Nation's President today. Causation vs. correlation be damned! We lay all the day's good news in one blog post in honor of the 44th President's big day. Think of it as our version of a birthday card, ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: July 28 through August 3, 2010

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Musicians help restore the Gulf Coast

Would You Rather...Be Beaten By Your Own Crutches Or Know That Whoopi Goldberg Has Your Back?

​Why are summer Mondays so much harder than winter Mondays? Why is it so hot? Why is everyone complaining when it's not even that hot? Why must the MTA continue to screw us? It's one of those days over here at Runnin' Scared HQ when we're all feeling kinda ouchy, and so, we offer you: Would Yo ... More >>

A Leaking Well Is Not a Seeping Well, and Other Lessons Learned From the BP Disaster

​As we mentioned this morning, there was a "seep" detected in the Gulf of Mexico near the once-leaky well that's, apparently, back to leaking now, although not quite so much as it was before the cap was put on. This seep may be adding methane to the mix in the Gulf, but in a crazy plot twist, ... More >>

BP Oil Well Cap Is Hanging In There, For Now

​The deadline on BP's 48-hour trial on a new well cap, 3:25 p.m. EST, has come and gone with no word from the company, the Associated Press is reporting. Is no news good news? Video of the cap shows no oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, a ubiquitous sight over the last 80-plus days. Forgive ... More >>

Breaking: Holy Crap, the Oil Leak in the Gulf May Be Contained

Unfortunately, capping the leak is probably not going to help this hermit crab.​Can it be? Dare we to believe? Say it's so! Brett Michael Dykes at Yahoo! News reports that "A tweet from the PBS NewsHour Twitter feed probably sums it up best: 'BREAKING: There does not appear to be oil flowing i ... More >>

BP Removes Cap, Oil to Flow Freely For Days

​Remember the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? It's been over 80 days. The disaster has been in the news less lately; folks feel desensitized, dejected. Still, nothing is fixed. In fact, Saturday around noon BP removed the cap that was preventing oil from the leaky well from gushing into th ... More >>

BP Chief Tony Hayward is Attending a Yacht Race; Now Everyone's Really Mad

​For Tony Hayward, after dealing with the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history every day for 60 days, it's vacation time. He's currently attending a yacht race around England's Isle of Wight, where his 52-foot boat named "Bob" is participating. "He's spending a few hours with his family ... More >>

Hooters Girls Have the Answer to Plugging the BP Oil Spill: Put a Stocking in it.

Hooters to the rescue.​In the wake of the biggest oil spill -- and, potentially, environmental disaster -- in history, leave it to the girls from Hooters to save the day. The chain's buxom waitresses are donating their pantyhose to create booms (floating barriers to contain the spill) that wou ... More >>

Lightning Strikes BP Drill Ship; People Start to Wonder

​First Jesus, now BP. Lightning is smiting things all over the place! A bolt struck a drill ship siphoning oil from the Gulf of Mexico today, starting a fire that stopped efforts to contain the leak. Temporarily, thank...ahem.

BP Protesters Take to the Streets, New York Times Building

​Today is Worldwide BP Protest Day. Have you heard about the damage they've done? Oil is still flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, at a rate of around 1.7 million gallons a day. From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., one New York City meeting spot for angry environmentalist or lonely singles is the New York Tim ... More >>

Morning Links: BP Spill Far Worse Than Exxon-Valdez, Ex-Inmate Gets $300,000 Payout for Squashed Balls, the World Cup Begins

​• Prepare to feel depressed: According to new estimates, "an amount equivalent to the Exxon Valdez disaster could be flowing into the Gulf of Mexico every 8 to 10 days." Ugh. President Obama is asking to meet with BP execs next week, and Congress is pressuring BP to stop paying shareholders ... More >>

No Reservations at a New Breed of Hip Resto; Finding Manna in Manhattan

​New Jersey has banned research-related oyster-farming projects in the state's polluted coastal waters in order to protect the shellfish industry in light of the BP oil spill and avoid having contaminated oysters end up on dinner tables. [NJ] A number of trendy restaurants, like Má Pêche i ... More >>

Sniffing Out Oil-Tainted Seafood; Just Who Is Ruth Bourdain?

​Ruth Bourdain, the tweeting persona who is half Ruth Reichl, half Anthony Bourdain wants to keep his/her identity a secret, even turning down the chance to appear on a panel with Bourdain and Reichl at the New York City Wine & Food Festival. [Wall Street Journal] Michelle Obama invited more ... More >>

BP Is Definitely the Devil: So Do We Kill These Oil-Covered Birds or What?

​This is what we know: BP ruined everything and will forever be stained by the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. (It's still going.) Also stained? All of the poor animals whose homes and lives we (but mostly BP) ruined with our nasty oil habit. Which leads us to what we don't know: Is i ... More >>

Wooden Shjips Cover LCD Soundsystem's "Drunk Girls," Succeed In Making A Tribute To The Velvet Underground Sound Like It's Actually Being Performed By The Velvet Underground

​So here we have a dirge-y psych-rock band from San Francisco covering a lithe dance-rock band from New York City, and rendering a neurotic, jittery, deceptively frivolous pop throwaway that faintly echoes "White Light/White Heat" as a droning, lumbering, fuzz-drenched stoner jam that not-so-f ... More >>

What Not to Do in the Midst of A Horrendous Environmental Catastrophe, If You're Barack Obama

That would be "Sing 'Hey Jude' in the East Room of the White House with Paul McCartney, Jack White, Dave Grohl (!), Jerry Seinfeld, Elvis Costello, your wife, and a whole bunch of other people on an evening when BP finally finished sawing through its own oil rig, thus dumping yet still more light ... More >>

BP Oil Spill Sticking Around the Gulf Through Summer

​In the latest from the historic American environmental mess in the Gulf of Mexico, BP is now warning that amid the failure of the "top kill," crude oil may be leaking into the water until August, according to the Washington Post. And as the responsibility continues to bleed from BP toward the ... More >>

BP's Top Kill Failed? Oil Giant Crowdsourcing What to Do Next (UPDATED)

​While the official word says that BP is still "assessing" the success level of this week's "top kill" attempt to plug the massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, reports are creeping in that it was a big fat failure. It's clear that the gushing poisonous fluid has not yet stopped leaking, acc ... More >>

The BP Oil Spill Disaster: It's Top Kill Time, Baby!

​The BP Oil Spill Disaster has been going on for quite some time now, but BP - when they're not busy possibly constructing horrific charts or ignoring incredibly apparent warning signs - thinks they have the answer: Top Kill, Live on TV!

About that Oil Leak in the Gulf: How Disastrous Is It?

​It turns out, we pretty much all see the oil spill in the Gulf as a major disaster, reports Pew Research. And that's sort of heartening, because the only thing worse than a ruptured well in the Gulf leaking 210,000 gallons of oil a day into the water and up onto the shores would be people run ... More >>

$12 Coffee at Café Grumpy; No Kids Allowed at the Empire Room

​The Country Cooking of Ireland by Colman Andrews, a co-founder of Saveur, won the James Beard award for Cookbook of the Year, while Real Cajun by Donald Link took top honors in the U.S. category. [ABC News] The anti-corn syrup movement started in the natural and organic food world, but has n ... More >>

Morning Links: Lucky Charms, Mud Truck Sightings, and Smurfs

​• That oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico is bad -- 5,000 barrels a day bad. The spill may reach the coast by Friday. One small bright(ish) spot: The crude is light, more like "iced tea" than heavier crude, and will "cause less environmental damage." No comment from Arizona Iced Tea. • Lucky ... More >>

Obama Proposes Offshore Drilling for Bubblin' Crude; Clampetts and Kin Rejoice

​The Atlantic coastline may soon be up for grabs (along with the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska) for oil and gas drilling. The Obama administration proposed today that the areas be opened "to reduce dependence on oil imports, generate revenue from the sale of offshore lea ... More >>

Study: Junk Food Is Like Heroin; FDA May Ban Mexican Oysters

​A new study reveals that the brain responds to junk food the same way it does to heroin. According to researchers, "this is the most complete evidence to date that suggests obesity and drug addiction have common neurobiological underpinnings." [Grist] Meanwhile, Paul Rudnick, the author of I ... More >>

Studies in Crap: My Vision of the Destruction of America Atop Empire State Building

Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. My Vision of the Destruction of America Atop Empire State Building Author: A. A. Allen Publisher: A. A. Al ... More >>

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