Front page, NYT:

TEXAS CITY, Tex. — While the world was focused on the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a BP refinery here released huge amounts of toxic chemicals into the air that went unnoticed by residents until many saw their children come down with respiratory problems.

For 40 days after a piece of equipment critical to the refinery’s operation broke down, a total of 538,000 pounds of toxic chemicals, including the carcinogen benzene, poured out of the refinery.

What’s BP stand for again? Butterfingers Petroleum? (Huh-yuk, huh-yuk.)

Brend an Kiley has worked as a child actor in New Orleans, as a member of the junior press corps at the 1988 Republican National Convention, and, for one happy April, as a bootlegger’s assistant in Nicaragua....

2 replies on “BP: The Spillingest Guys Around”

  1. What’s the price tag? They have so much money, and potential to make so much money, they can pretty much do what the fuck they please. And Republicans are so corrupt they will never make BP or any company responsible for their negligence.

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