Tag Archives: BP oil spill

Oil flow surges in Gulf spill

This is not good. From MSNBC: Oil was again gushing from the BP spill site on Wednesday after the company was forced to remove the containment cap when a robotic submarine hit a vent. The news came as officials also reported two deaths of people who had been hired for the response effort.

Should Obama ‘dumb it down’?

The media punditry continues to slice and dice President Obama’s speech on the gulf oil disaster, but an interesting observations was made by Paul J.J. Payack, president of Global Language Monitor, an Austin, Texas-based company that analyzes word usage and word choice. Even though the Oval Office address was written at a 10th grade level, [...]