The Sunday Talking Heads include the usual list of suspects and people whose views have proven to be so insightful in the past. So I’d like to ask all the elected and Administration officials the following question(s) about their connection to several BP Oil Disaster stories.

The solution ideas to date have been straight out of the Wile E. Coyote Acme School of BP Profitology.

There is a lot of experience in controlled implosions under a variety of circumstances. Would it be harder a mile under the sea? Sure, but if we have the technology to be drilling there and two miles further down from the sea floor, then we ought to be able to figure this out too. If it destroys BP’s precious well, that is just an extra benefit; they don’t deserve it anyway.

Primary Election Returns, Oil Spill.

Bopin’ Hood. This Paramount Pictures Modern Madcap cartoon was released on August 15, 1961.

Who’s afraid of Sarah Palin? According to Sr. K. J. Lopez, OLSB*, LIBERAL BROADS. When Sarah Palin speaks, liberal feminists go wild. We do? Why, I suppose we do. We go wild. When Sarah Palin speaks, if that is the correct word to describe what she does when she creates noises approximating language, we promptly [...]

At Friday night’s Equality California’s kickoff event for Harvey Milk Weekend at San Francisco’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center, to celebrate the eightieth birthday of the first LGBT American to have a state-commemorated day, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi assured the assembled A-list LGBT crowd: “I believe DADT will be a memory by Christmas.”

The press, the oil, and the plight of the fishermen — a journey down State Highway 23 in Louisiana through Plaquemines and Jefferson Parishes, towards the Gulf of Mexico.

After the DCCC pulled out of the special election in HI-01, most political observers turned their attentions elsewhere. The race, which features two major Democrats and one major Republican in a winner-take-all election, was essentially conceded to Charles Djou, the Republican. It is thought that Ed Case and Colleen Hanabusa will split the vote, and Djou will win easily. Facts on the ground may puncture this conventional wisdom, though.

As promised Obama signed an executive order forming a presidential commission to study the BP disaster today. I thought it’d be instructive to compare what he just formed with what Edward Markey and Lois Capps proposed.

America’s government may be the first one in the history of the world that started out with the expressly stated goal of making its citizens happy. Jefferson set out “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” in the Declaration of Independence. Madison added “to promote the general welfare” to the six purposes of government in the Constitution’s preamble. Both believed that democracy was the system most likely to deliver on the promise of helping people live happier lives.