Ranting and Raving
So many many things to talk about today..... Let's get the whole small people thing out of the way, first. My position on the assassination of the Gulf of Mexico has already been made clear - some of the prettiest and most productive shoreline in the world is being altered irreparably and expensively because nobody wondered what might go wrong if safety were sacrificed to profit. BP's executives should have to explain themselves, to as many Congressional Committees as want to flay them. Yes, it's an extraordinarily absurd exercise and a vanity showcase for our elected officials to demonstrate their outrage but humiliation is all we've got going for us right now. The oil keeps gushing into the Gulf, and we're reduced to collecting snippets of hair and shoving them into nylons. Does anyone even wear nylons anymore? But, I digress. BP's chairman, Carl-Henric Svanberg, was interviewed in the driveway of the White House this week. He had just...