ANWR Update

Evidently, the House of representatives heard about the anally -cancerous-sharp-object-insertion curse being aimed at their Senate counterparts by yours truly and thought better about their choices regarding the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge:

The LA Times says: "In a rare victory for environmentalists in the House of Representatives, Republican leaders Wednesday night abandoned a measure to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling."

Now, let's talk about this privatization of public lands for private mining...