Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Another look at "normal"

More than 20 years ago, the Exxon Valdez spilled 10.8 million gallons into the Prince William Sound, Alaska. The oil eventually covered 11,000 square miles of ocean. In the aftermath, the National Transportation Safety Board made a number of recommendations, such as changes to the work patterns of Exxon crew in order to address the causes of the accident. In other words, things in the oil business basically got back to normal (e.g. offshore drilling, air pollution, sprawl, climate change, wars fought in oil-rich nations, and all that).

We seem to have an insatiable craving for normal.

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Congratulate me: I won a haiku contest

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Eat your leafy greens

Eat your seaweed, too

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A squirrel gets comfortable on our fire escape

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Classic poem


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