Rocks: The Secret Weapon

From my favorite online comic artist, Zeo at Rant Hour, comes evidence of an insidious plot. Rocks are everywhere! It's true! Rocks threaten heavily-armed troops all over the world. It time we cleaned up all those loose weapons....

BP and BS...Stuff from All Over

The Washington Post gets it right...gas is very...expensive (via Twitter at @clasticdetritus). There is a lot of blood mixed in with the oil we consume. The apology needs to come from us.

A bit of anger from Rant Hour...How good are Tony Hayward's predictions and proclamations? Remember Bagdad Bob ("the Saddam spokesman who coalition forces would never take the capital even as American tanks were visible a few thousand yards from where BB stood")?

A 1962 ad for Humble Oil from Al's Journal, via Huffington Post. Humble Oil became Exxon in the 1970's. Big Oil definitely isn't humble any more...

From Mike Mitchell, via Huffington Post

And, BP continues to block media access to the devastated beaches with the help of the local and federal government...

Gasoline and petroleum are not our only energy related problems...those gas-saving lithium ion batteries in hybrid car also have a problem with resource availability. Lithium has to be mined too.

Geologist drop Two Places, Teachers up Eleven: New Best Careers List Out

The Best and Worst Jobs for 2010 have been posted. Science areas do pretty well (again), although mathematician dropped from its lofty perch of #1 to #6. Biologist, Meteorologist, Astronomer, Physicist, Anthropologist, and Archaeologist all crack the top 50. Geologists dropped two places to #32 and Teachers rose eleven spots to #116.

I talked about how I have the best job in the world last year.

Thanks to Zeo at Rant Hour for the picture of a typical teacher day...