The decision to open up large areas of the nation’s coasts to oil exploration and drilling got the big headlines, but that’s not all the Obama Administration was up to. A Bush-era policy known as the “millsite” provision allows the hardrock mining industry to use unlimited amounts of public land to dump toxic mine waste and tailings from large-scale industrial mining operations. A group of tree-hugging liberal commie socialists filed a lawsuit to stop the practice, hoping that the Obama Administration would support their efforts. Alas, the administration has decided to support the mining industry instead. Suck on those rocks, liberals!

There is some good environmental news this morning, as the lo-cal news twit just informed me that Sun Chips now come in a fully “composable” bag. I’m not sure if that means the bags are fully composed, or can be fully posed. Or it may mean that the news chick’s brain is pretty well composted. Wouldn’t surprise me, as she’s kind of a skinny blond who’s always complaining about the cold, and I’ve long been convinced that the first place people lose weight is their brain.

As our NY State legislature heads into its well-earned 10-day Easter holiday without doing perhaps the only thing their jobs actually require of them (passing a budget), our Governor has fallen back on the tried and true refrain of bashing State workers, calling for them to forgo the pay raises which took effect yesterday. I don’t recall the State ever proposing to increase raises when times were good and all that Wall Street money was rolling in, but it’s always good PR to bash public employees. The State’s unions responded to the Governor with a hearty “fuck you.” On the bright side, the State’s non-union, “Management Confidential” employees won’t be getting a raise this year (the second year in a row), demonstrating the consequences of being rat bastards.

I’m not sure who named today “Good Friday,” but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t Jesus. I don’t see a whole lot of “good” in being beaten, tortured, and hung on a cross. On the bright side, I’m sure the Romans got a lot of actionable intelligence out of it. From what I’ve read, before it was over, Jesus confessed to killing Jimmy Hoffa and plotting the 9/11 attacks.

Oh well, it’s getting late, and I want get in some self-flagellation time before work.