WTF? on the oil spill
The new perspective: I was telling someone something that just happened and they responded, “At least it’s not an oil spill.” There you have it.
What is this spill and what is going on? My reliable source, a scientist and someone who knows these waters more than most, tells me that it is still way too early to tell what is going on and that this could be larger than the Valdez accident or much less so and that anyone who tells you differently right now does not know what they are talking about.
On a micro level, we’re headed to the beach and are getting reports the beaches in Alabma are pristine, no noxious odors, nothing in sight. The media is saying the chemicals being used to disperse the oil and keeping it from coming to shore are worse than the spill itself. The sea meanwhile is shifting, the winds are changing, and so far nobody, I repeat nobody, knows what the results of this tragic spill are, not even the ones who caused it, BP.
The one thing I do know for certain is that the oil spill has taken the heat off the Pope for now.