What it is to be angry

Admiral Edward James Olmos and Battlestar Galactica episode director Robert Young give voice to the south Louisiana residents caught up in the continuing crisis of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill



Rolling Stone has a lengthy investigative report chronicling the government's sluggish, befuddled response to the economic and ecological disasters. Ever heard of the federal Minerals Management Service agency? It's destined to become as infamous to the public as FEMA was after Hurricane Katrina.

Rolling Stone: The Spill, The Scandal and the President (featured in current issue on newsstands now)

If you haven't got one of those forwarded emails shouting let's all boycott BP, just wait a bit. Sharon Begley at Newsweek Online explains why such an knee jerk response lacks an effective focus.

Newsweek: Boycott BP? Because it's so much better to give your money to Exxon



In my opinion, perhaps the most short sighted aspect of all is that we're twelve weeks from the peak of hurricane season. What would you call an oil spill, that is no longer an oil spill, after being subjected to hurricane tidal forces, torrential winds and rains?

-ThP