I wonder when people are going to realize that the catastrophe in the Gulf was caused by BP’s reckless decisions, but also by reckless U.S. government regulators. I keep calling this a moral catastrophe above all, at least in its causes, because it is the outcome of both industry and government not taking their grave…

This guy and his company are unbelievable. Excerpt: BP officials on Saturday scrambled yet again to respond to another public relations challenge when their embattled chief executive, Tony Hayward, spent the day off the coast of England watching his yacht compete in one of the world’s largest races. More: On Saturday, Senator Richard Shelby, Republican…

That’s a photo of my father and me taken late last year in his backyard. It’s one of my favorites. How fortunate we are to be here in Starhill to celebrate Father’s Day with him. It gives me the opportunity to bring up here what I think is the best thing I’ve ever written: an…

A clarifying quote from Wendell Berry: “What I stand for is what I stand on.” Corporation, politician, government bureaucrat, Internet pundit or talk show loudmouth, anybody who is against the land, against this land of south Louisiana, where I’m from and where I am today, is against me, and I’m against them. I’m against them…

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