Tag: Texas

  • Bayou Sinkhole Growing

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    Tim Murphy at Mother Jones described the sinkhole at Bayou Corne as “the biggest ongoing disaster in the United States you haven’t heard of.” One night in August 2012, after months of unexplained seismic activity and mysterious bubbling on the bayou, a sinkhole opened up on a plot of land leased by the petrochemical company Texas Brine, forcing…

  • Etymology of the word idiot – care of Jim Hightower

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    Recounting his speech earlier this month to the Denison (Texas) High School Class of 2013, Hightower recently wrote: “Idiotes were not people with low-watt brains, but individuals who cared only about themselves, refusing to participate in public efforts to benefit the larger community – the common good. The Greeks, I told the students, considered such…