Stuff I think. By Bill O'Neill. Since 2003.
Archive for 26 July, 2010
If the gulf oil spill keeps disappearing, then what?
Jul 26th
Hello, Mother. You gotta love those who love “the Mother.” When the planet is doing what God intended it to do and that is seen as a good thing, then it’s “Mother Earth doing her job.” When the planet is doing what God intended it to do and that is seen as a bad thing, then “it’s God’s fault.” And who said environmentalism isn’t a religion?
ABC News: “[It's] mother nature doing her job,” said Ed Overton, a professor of environmental studies at Louisiana State University.
No, those aren’t owls. According to this story from ABC News the oil spill is going away. It is disappearing. And the environmentalists and scientists are screeching. Check out this brilliance: ”The numbers don’t lie: two weeks ago, skimmers picked up about 25,000 barrels of oily water. Last Thursday, they gathered just 200 barrels.”
ABC, not to lose a good cause with a bad story, jumps back with, “Still, it doesn’t mean that all the oil that gushed for weeks is gone. Thousands of small oil patches remain below the surface.”
Sadly, there is the need to acknowledge the glory of God’s work. ”But experts say an astonishing amount has disappeared, reabsorbed into the environment.”
And then, there’s Professor Ed driving it home with his funky religion thing, ”[It's] mother nature doing her job,” said Ed Overton, a professor of environmental studies at Louisiana State University. You can only pray, Professor Ed, you can only pray. The Mother is listening. Now, let’s all grab some sod and make a nice hat.
The Beauty of Silver Lake
Jul 26th
Here’s a cool photo taken by our daughter, Virginia, when we were at Silver Lake in Goshen, Vermont last weekend. She’s got talent with a camera!
WCAP Radio Days 1984
Jul 26th
Here’s a classic [proving that 'classic' does not necessarily confer 'talent'] aircheck from December 5, 1984 at WCAP (980 Lowell). It’s unedited so you can hear lots of pops from when the “skimmer” aircheck tape deck turned on and off. Skimmer only record whenever the mic was on and goes into ‘pause’ mode when the mic it turned off.
I worked at WCAP for many years. Even when working elsewhere, with few exceptions, I held down radio shifts at WCAP from around 1981 until 2000.
Darlene McCarthy, the news anchor on this audio, is now the weekend news anchor for 7 NBC (WHDH TV Boston). Darlene has been a very successful news anchor for many years. During that time at WCAP Darlene and I shared the 6 pm. to midnight shift; I was the music guy and Darlene did top of hour news throughout the evening. It was clear, during her time at WCAP, that Darlene would go very far and she was a pleasure to work with.
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