BP: The Coffee Spill

Sometimes, you just have to laugh at situations. Like the BP oil spill that the American Right are trying to pin on Barack Obama, as if he had control over international waters, companies from overseas, or anything like that. Or as if the Federal government had better resources than the companies who had years of experience drilling in the middle of the fucking ocean when three quarters of the American taxpayers' money goes to the military, not scientific research.

And no one wants to admit it, but the only way Obama could interfere with BP's ''business-as-usual'' approach is by meddling with the very fabric of American society - capitalism. And he sure as fuck can't when half his country still thinks he's a Muslim Socialist, not quite understanding the implications of either word, I'm afraid.

So we're left with ''the market self-regulating itself'', and that means BP will do whatever the fuck they want, will end up firing their CEO in a very public manner and public trust in the company will grow back to the same levels as before, but nothing in their practices will change, and there will always be a risk that a fucking bolt will kill off 50 species of animals and whole regions' economies.

In any event, we have to find a way to plow through this shit, some way or another. Here's one.