Notoriety

In the past month BP has, with help from the Unholy Brotherhood of the Hole Punch, created quite a literal and figurative mess. The literal mess, of course, is the oil soiling beaches and wetlands in the Gulf of Mexico while the figurative mess is the public relations nightmare that having such a huge literal mess naturally causes. We feel sorry for BP as, after all, it was our nemesis that got them into this mess, but we also feel that they should bear the brunt of the cleanup cost as nobody made them negotiate with the UBHP. When you stop to think of the magnitude of the problem you will undoubtedly be overwhelmed, which is presumably why a BP executive had a brilliant idea: if you can't clean up the literal mess, just clean up the figurative one and then the public will stop noticing the literal mess and you're off the hook. It's much easier, after all. At the GNU Public Dictatorship we are nothing if not appreciative of such cunning, but we are also nothing if not hoping that the world citizens don't stand for it!