This is crushing.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski is wearing some Hulk earrings Tuesday in honor of the late Sen. Ted Stevens, who was known for wearing superhero ties and would wear a Hulk tie whenever he tried to get Congress to approve oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
There’s no chance that Dr. Bruce Banner or his alter-ego the Hulk would have approved of Stevens’ and Murkowski’s determination to despoil a wildlife preserve in order to enrich a few already-super-rich people and corporations. There are many, many arguments against the exploitation of ANWR (see, e.g., “The Energy Case Against Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge” from the Center for American Progress) while the primary argument for drilling boils down to “It won’t hurt a bit!” We should gift Murkowski with earrings bearing a more appropriate symbol of her ambitions: Lex Luthor.