Category Archives: Environment

Jomtien Beach Review 2010

My friend, Alan Platt aka the Old Roue, visited Jomtien Beach 20 years ago for seaside romance with a bargirl from Walking Street. “It was sunrise. The sea was gin-clear and little fish were jumping from the water. It was magic.” Making love at dawn in the sea is erotic poetry in motion, but the […]

Ecological Stomping Grounds

British Petroleum’s latest attempt to seal the DeepWater oil spill ended with the underwater robots knocking off the capture siphon. Even more oil spews from the damaged oil head than before. The Pentagon is offering another plan to fuse the leak with a heat bomb. One mile down. No one else has offered up with […]

Thai Tsunami ESP

The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake caught Xmas holiday-makers by tragic surprise.Over 200,000 people were killed by the killer waves generated by a monster quake off the coast of Western Sumatra. The 9.1 tremor rang the planet like a bell. The hum continued for weeks, as the coastal communities of Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, and India […]

Unacceptable Contrition

The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a disaster for the ocean. Another blow against Nature. An unparalleled ecological disaster without any end in sight. British Petroleum, Halliburton, and the Bureau of Mines and Minerals. Capitol, science, and government. A Triumvirate of failure. The American people want to know why. Someone had to […]

The Cajun Nuclear Option

The Gulf Oil Spill continues to spew oil a month and a half after the Deepwater Horizon platform exploded 40 miles off the coast of Louisiana. BP has failed to cap the mile-deep gusher and the oil is threatening to smear the entire southern coast of the United States. President Obama has heard thousands of […]