re: this has turned out to be a really lame oil spill.

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It's obvious your career has not been derailed like about 10K other people (est). Using the word "lame" to describe what has happened is a bit over the top no? There are thousands of shrimpers,oyster & fisherman, businessowners, oilfield workers etc, who would punch you in your dick sucker for saying that this spill is "lame"...JMHO

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It depends an exactly what you are talking about. The majority of those people were not hurt by the oil spill but instead by the reactions to the oil spill.

Reactions being shutting down offshore drilling despite the fact that it is more hazardous to do so. Media scaring people away from the coast when the beaches and water were safe. Govt shutting down fishing in waters that had no business being shut down or staying shut down.

[boring clarification: Yes some fishing should have been shut down etc etc. But in each case above the authorities to be made the damage much much worse than it needed to be.]