I guess Hurricane Dennis had a deal with Greenpeace. Because the storm which everyone derides as a semi-fizzle did manage one major act of destruction: it took out the $1 billion Thunder Horse oil drilling platform in the Gulf Of Mexico (story here; updates, pics, video here). The rig is jointly owned by BP and Exxon, and was expected to pump out up to 250,000 barrels of oil a day. But you can see from this Coast Guard video and the pictures below that o'l Thunder Horse ain't going to be pumping anything for quite a while. This is Man versus Nature (Round 4,365,623) and Nature took this one in a unanimous decision...


"Hey, Joe, there's a guy called Karl Rove on the phone, and he's babbling about the need to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge..."