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Many of you have written in asking for a follow up on the BP spill disaster. It’s simple, BP tried to hide the oil. Out of sight, out of mind. They figured that with American’s famous minuscule attention span we would forget it if we couldn’t easily see it. To a large extent they were right. They took a huge illegal gamble, in for a penny, in for a pound as they say in merry olde England, and poured masses of toxic dispersants into the oil filled Gulf waters. This was illegal and the dispersants are more toxic that the oil - but BP was cannily playing a game of perception. As everyone who ever worked in advertising or watched “Mad Men” knows “perception is reality”.

On the other hand, anyone who has read Poe knows that hearts can keep on beating even after the people they are inside of are sealed up in brick walls, or dispersed through the ocean, as the case may be.

The oil is coating the ocean floor and killing masses of sea creatures while doing irreparable harm to every part of the biological balance of the ocean, but it’s no problem if we can’r see it. Meanwhile most news cameras have moved on in search of tea parties polluting the political waters rather than oil choking the ocean. What’s an environmental catastrophe compared with Lindsey Lohan going back to jail?

Vast plumes of microscopic oil droplets under the ocean have been found by researchers moving under the ocean, heading towards Florida.  That is what the combination of toxic dispersants and oil has created. BP and company, with the collusion of our government, are to be congratulated for making oil more toxic than it used to be, and likely more mobile and more enduring. A BP scientist admitted that oil spills treated with dispersants had still not recovered after 30 years, while untreated areas had largely done so in 5 years.

The oil is just under the sand on many beaches, from a few inches down, to up to a foot or more. In fact sand has been trucked in some places to provide a thicker layer for little tykes to dig and romp in before they put a little fist in the gooey stuff. Just to give the kids more to play with, it seems oil “patties” 1” to 3” are showing up in such places as the Alabama seawall. Patty cake anyone?