May 26

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5/26/2010 5:46 AM 

This was offered to the Beachcomber today. I hope to be pardoned for tooting my horn on club time:

The oil in the Gulf of Mexico was not spilled. A spill can be boomed, which does not say that BP had booms ready. No, the oil in the gulf is a river of poison. Seen  that way it is something we cannot ignore as we ignore so many horrid things, the swindle, the war, Guantanimo, you know, all those things we Christians say we oppose. No, we cannot ignore the blowout. Please, now, hold the litany of helplessness and deniability also known as virtuous local interest that is trotted out at crunch times like recently when health care hit the fan of metastasized greed at which point we should have begun a local program. Instead consider that the proper response, the only feasible response Vashon can have is to get rid of gasoline driven cars and wean off of natural gas. The sun enables both goals. Spare me the reasons we cannot get started.