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Now we know the training regimen the BP oil-spill crews studied under: The Wing and a Prayer School of Emergency Response.

We’ve been watching the hundreds of thousands of dollars that corporate interests have been pouring into two legislative races, and while we would have hoped for a more sharply drawn repudiation by voters, this is still pretty satisfying.

He could well be the Republican nominee for Insurance Commissioner, depending on how the final votes turn out, in what has to be the biggest surprise of Election Day (albeit in a race few were watching).

Well, here is heartening news — despite spending a combined $62 million, PG&E and Mercury Insurance’s bids to buy their own state initiatives went down in flames at the polls Tuesday.

BP refused to let the U.S. Coast Guard release video of oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico because it claimed the footage contained “proprietary details.”

New York Times: “More than six years before the biggest sex discrimination lawsuit in history was filed against Wal-Mart Stores, the company hired a prominent law firm to examine its vulnerability to just such a suit.”

The McDonald’s fast food chain says it will recall 12 million Shrek character glasses it has been selling as a promotional tie-in with the new “Shrek Forever After” movie because they contain cadmium, which can cause cancer as well as damage bones and internal organs.