As absurd as this is, the not-a-spill continues to be no laughing matter. While politicians have struggled to compare this to “a light sheen” of chocolate milk, rivers of thick black goo “ten miles long, three miles wide and 300 feet thick” have been observed on the ocean floor. This morning oil is washing up on the Louisiana marshland. Yesterday we learned that their plan for helping wildlife had been so carelessly copied and pasted from other sources that it described “Walrus and sea otter” as living in the gulf of Mexico. Now we learn that BP is encouraging the Coast Guard to prevent news crews from approaching the area ‘on threat of arrest’.
