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Mick Arran

Location: Savannah, Georgia, USA

Bio: I've done everything from recycling to teaching in a pre-school. Most recently I was for 10 years an acting and theater teacher as well as a pallet builder. I read a lot and I'm an old man who remembers the distant past with somewhat more clarity than this morning's breakfast. I've been blogging for a decade and I don't do "light". If you're looking for recipes, self-promoting displays of items made for sale, titillating stories about how I was a pimp for an afternoon, or the beauties of toasters, you've come to the wrong place. Check the Front Page.

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Mick Arran's Links

Blogs Worth Checking: Savannah Regional Central Labor Council; The Sideshow (Avedon Carol); Unclaimed Territory (Glenn Greenwald); Robert Reich's Blog; Barbara's Blog (Barbara Ehrenreich); Norwegianity; Crooks and Liars; Walled-In Pond
Mine Blogs: Arranology; Fact-esque; mickarran's blog (Savannah Morning News)
Series: Siren Song; The Bush Cult; Dump the Dems

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JANUARY 11, 2011 5:55PM

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There’s a new analysis of the Gulf oil spill that makes plain the reasons for it are, as many of us said, systemic. Not an accident, not a once-in-a-lifetime concatenation of incompetence, faulty equipment, and mismanagement, no, the direct result of BAU. The report calls for massive new regulation of the oil industry. The reason I know this will not happen is that Harry Reid promises to get right on it. QED.

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Basically, these guys all suck and I hate them very, very much

Rw005g

January 11, 2011 05:57 PM

The oil industry would have him in a cement overcoat at the bottom of the Potomac in less time than it takes to say it.

Mick Arran

January 11, 2011 05:58 PM

Personally, I was always a fan of the way Huey Long dealt with Standard Oil and the oil interests of Louisiana. A good template, methinks, for the Left/Populsts

Rw005g

January 11, 2011 06:02 PM

What Rw said, especially about Huey Long!

What we need is a Kingfish, and all we get from the Democrats is a bunch of fucking guppies!