Published May 27, 2010
It is summer and time for visiting, so I was on the West Coast near Los Angeles this past weekend.
Standing above Laguna Beach, watching the beauty of the surf play against the palms, warm sun on my face, I looked down; three little tar balls, stuck to the bottom of my flip-flop, stinky, and full of sand and dead grass and little rocks. The far off storm that was kicking up the surf had also brought them ashore.
Appropriate, I thought, as there is an oil spill in the Gulf.
Apathetic to the fact that it was the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon drilling platform sank into the Gulf of Mexico April 22, having killed 11 and leaving a broken wellhead gushing countless barrels of oil into the depths of the Gulf.
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