Why Does God Hate Caribou?
by Mark Morford, SF Chronicle Columnist

(This Article May Seem Over-the-top, but read it completely before deciding)

Let us look, for example, at the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge, because the odds are now just sickeningly good that Big Oil is going to drill in that massive hunk of unspoiled nature, going to stomp on in and take 10 years to build massive oil rigs and enormous networks of pipelines and in the process destroy miles of delicate ecosystems in order to squeeze out one precious drop of oil into the vast bucket of America's gluttonous oil needs.

And sure you can believe the GOP lie that it's all some noble effort to get us off foreign oil a tiny bit, and what with oil prices so ridiculously high and gas-sucking SUVs so obviously stupid and BushCo's absolute refusal to enact conservation measures or to pressure automakers to build even slightly more fuel-efficient cars, screwing the environment and drilling for more oil is the only option neocons give a damn about.

Full story here.