Brian Sonenstein

We received this picture over the weekend of Just Say Now supporter Alan posing with comedian and UFC host Joe Rogan!

I just wanted to share this wonderful picture and brief story I received from one of our Just Say Now supporters today. From Lynda in PA: Here’s a photo taken yesterday at the Philadelphia Zoo. After I walked through the entrance gate, I heard a voice calling, "Miss, miss, does that shirt say what I [...]

Happy Friday! Here’s a blast from the past: an anti-drug music video featuring New Edition, LaToya Jackson, (a very young) Whitney Houston, Nancy Reagan, David Hasselhoff, and more!

Here’s a little comic relief from the horrors of the Gulf oil leak (52 days and counting).

“It’s just globs of death out there.”

AP follows Al Walker and his diving team to get an up close and personal look at the massive oil plumes in the Gulf of Mexico.

Watch our live feed from the White House as President Obama is expected to announce a 6 month extension of the partial moratorium on new deepwater drilling projects off the coasts of Alaska, Virginia and the western Gulf of Mexico.

Ken Ringle pens an interesting article over at Nieman Watchdog attacking the “drama” around the oil spill that has attracted so much attention– which he feels to be a bit over the top.

You’ll want to bookmark our live feed of the broken well head at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.

Watch this demonstration of Kevin Costner’s Ocean Therapy centrifuge devices, which are said to be able to siphon up to 97% of the oil from the water, with the largest one handling around 200 gallons of sea water a minute.

It’s unsatisfactory for me to say that the lesson we’ll eventually learn from this oil spill is that next time the response will be faster, or that next time there will be greater controls in place to reduce the impact on the environment and our communities. It avoids the fact that the consequences of such a spill are so great and irreversible that we can’t really afford to have “the next one.”

Unfortunately, this seems to be the direction we’re headed in.In a move to get in good with the folks over at Minerals Management Systems, who will be under much more scrutiny and pressure following the Gulf spill, Shell wrote them a letter to assuage any fears they might have about the oil giant’s future plans– specifically a controversial drilling project off the coast of Alaska