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After his World Cup heroics against Slovenia and Algeria, Landon Donovan is now an American sports hero!

As a follow up to my previous post, this is the friend I was writing about. I don't want to defend his actions, but at least he is a better speaker than Tony Hayward.

Being sick gives you an abnormal focus by limiting your mobility, your will, and your energy. While I was laying prone in this debilitating state, I watched "The Adventures of Ford Fairlane", one of the worst movies ever made. Everything about the movie was bad. The script sucked, the action was lame, the acting horrible. The worst part was Andrew Dice Clay. No matter what the tone of scene: tragic, melodramatic, tense; he would drop one of his famous vulgar, and in every scene, totally inappropriate, one-liners. I feel bad for every actor who had to work with him. I assume either everyone involved with this film was using cocaine, from the accountants to craft services, which fooled them all that they were making something viewable. A friend mentioned to me that whenever any film introduces cocaine at any point of the story, it is a guarantee that the entire production staff is using. I think a less believable but more plausible explanation is that that Dice had found ...

I noticed one of my friends just deleted his facebook account. I made a joke about it, since I think the reason why is that he is now the representative from British Petroleum for coordinating the thousands of claims against his company. Or I should say, our old company. I used to work with him at BP in the Exploration and Production section, which included the Horizon deepwater platform. He was actually the one who explained to me the difference between deepwater and the shelf. The continental shelf is about 500 feet deep, which has been accessible by traditional oil drilling rigs since the early 1900's. Deepwater is considered to be 3000-7000 feet deep, and the technology to drill for oil in water that depth has only been available since the 90's. And the primary reason to drill in deepwater, despite the risk, is greed, in case you heard otherwise. He also explained that since every "lease" in the shelf is accessible (the government owns all the rights but the...