BP America’s vice president of Gulf of Mexico exploration, David Rainey (November 19, 2009):

Drill baby drill!

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Poor Douglas Story. He blows $224.90 on some 9/11 porn for his tailgate, installs a Confederate Loser flag in his rear window, catches hell for his neo-Nazi license plate, denies he’s an anti-Semite to the Washington Post — and forgets to clean out all the breadcrumbs he’s been leaving online for years.

There are so many examples to choose from, we’ll let you follow the links for all the details. Let’s just return to his stated reason for calling WaPo in the first place:

“There is absolutely no way I’d have anything to do with Hitler or Nazis,” Story said Wednesday… “My sister-in-law and my niece are Jewish. I went to my niece’s bat mitzvah when she turned 13 three years ago. Does that sound like something an anti-Semite would do?”

Well, Doug, you tell us:

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No, Arizona’s not done yet:

State senators approved legislation aimed at the curbing the ethnic-studies program in Tucson Unified School District.

HB 2281 would make it illegal for a school district to have any courses or classes that promote the overthrow of the U.S. government, are designed primarily for students of a particular ethnic group or advocate ethnic solidarity “instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals.”

It also would ban classes that “promote resentment toward a race or class of people.”

By our reading, Arizona legislators want to throw you in jail for insulting white people. After which they’ll throw you out of the country.

Legislators take aim anew at ethnic-studies programs [Arizona Daily Star, via ThinkProgress]

A giant of journalism is stepping down tonight, but it’s not getting that much attention.  PBS has announced that tonight will be the last episode of Bill Moyers’ Journal, as well as NOW, another PBS public affairs show started by  Moyers during the George W. Bush Administration.

Moyers is a national treasure, a reporter who has always treated his fellow citizens as adults who can understand nuanced arguments and multi-syllabic words.  In an era of soundbites, blatant lies, and superficiality, he is a thoughtful, probing critic who exposes the abuses of the powerful and espouses a brand of populism that honors the dignity of every person, regardless of their class, race, citizenship, religion, or gender.  He has taken on oil companies, tobacco companies, the chemical industry, mining companies, polluters, agri-business exploitation of undocumented farm workers, union-busters, the Iran-Contra scandal, and the corporate media’s complicity in the lead-up to the Iraq War, just to name a few.  As a result, he has been a lightning rod for many conservatives, most recently when George W. Bush’s appointee to Chair the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Kenneth Tomlison, engaged in a secret inquiry into Moyers’ alleged left-wing bias.

Charlie Rose says of Moyers:  “He is, I’ve always believed, a true son of Texas and like the best Texans he drew from the land his poetry, his politics, his populism, his spirituality and yes, his instinct for power.”

This is my tribute to an American and Texan treasure.

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You know it’s bad when the Drill Baby herself feels compelled to extend condolences.

But it’s even worse than you think:

The state departments of Health and Hospitals and Environmental Quality said the strong odor blanketing much of coastal Louisiana and the metro New Orleans area is “possibly” the result of the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Then again, Mary Landrieu isn’t letting the stench stop her:

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Members of the professional adult-entertainment community remind you that when you download pirated quality commercial federally protected freedom of expression for your personal hygiene needs, you’re starving their kids and depriving the San Fernando Valley of desperately needed tax revenue. Please, don’t be naughty in your consumption of fine American-produced artistic depictions of the human condition, or they’ll have to come to your house and spank you.

Porn Stars Decry Piracy in New Video [Wired]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM4eJ38S7Hw

The Better Marriage Blanket absorbs your farts with a special fabric — “the same type of fabric used by the military to protect against chemical weapons!”

[via Sully]