Life in Hell -- Gulf version

To he best of my recollection, I have never seen anything by Matt Groening even remotely resembling political or topical humor. Maybe this is how he expresses his outrage. Sometimes, humorists don't try to be funny. They try for something else, like a punch to the solar plexus.


Oil spill in the gulf, as seen from space.

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From the Associated Press:

EARLY WARNING
Newly disclosed internal Coast Guard documents from the day after the explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig indicated that U.S. officials were warning of a leak of 336,000 gallons per day of crude from the well in the event of a complete blowout. The volume turned out to be much closer to that figure than the 42,000 gallons per day that BP first estimated. Weeks later that was revised to 210,000 gallons. Now, an estimated 500,000 to 1 million gallons of crude is believed to be leaking daily.

MORE BIRDS
The damage to the environment was chilling on East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast, where workers found birds coated in thick, black goo. Images shot by an Associated Press photographer show brown pelicans drenched in thick oil, struggling and flailing in the surf. Authorities said 60 birds, including 41 pelicans, were being rescued. That more than doubled the number of birds at the rescue center next to Fort Jackson.

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