The BP Spill In The Gulf And Other Disasters. It's All Our Fault.

A long time ago I wrote that, under the Neo-Con Administration of Dick Cheney, satire writers were forced to admit they had become superfluous. After all, I argued at the time, what was the point of satire when the truth's that were beginning to finally becoming apparent...the Valerie Plame thing, the torture thing, the Cheney shooting a guy in face thing, Conservative Christian Gay Military Prostitute White House Reporter thing (whew) and all the rest...were so much weirder and funnier than any lie we could ever think up? Now we're becoming superfluous again, but for a different reason- now what's happening is just not funny and to try and joke about the potential total destruction of 615,000 square miles of a part of the Atlantic Ocean and thousands of miles of surrounding shoreline for a start, is just perverse and heartless.