BP’s Weapon of Mass Destruction

Try as we might to imagine the impact of the British Petroleum oil spill (the word ‘spill’ sounds so reasonable but totally underplays the nature of this event) in the gulf, it’s difficult to really understand the tragedy of such a catastrophe from a...

Born Free

Did you hear about the Seaworld Orca death?  In addition to being an awful way to die (albeit possibly a quick death) I can hardly imagine what it must be like to be in captivity?  Especially performance captivity?  What if Orca just didn’t feel up to performing...