BP

From The Washington Post:

In the 77 days since oil from the ruptured Deepwater Horizon began to gush into the Gulf of Mexico, BP has skimmed or burned about 60 percent of the amount it promised regulators it could remove in a single day...(Click here to read the whole article.)

I'm not big into name-calling or presumption. I want to believe in everyone. I want to believe we are all good people. But the older I get, and the more I get to know this world we live in, the more and more that belief erodes.

Either the people with BP are liars, or they are not very good at what they do. I don't know which I would rather believe. I don't know which is better. 

Rather, I don't know which is worse. 

I don't know a lot of things. It's irresponsible for me, and for others, to suppose they have the right to rail against someone else for doing "wrong." Or "failing." 

But it's also irresponsible what BP has done, and how they have handled the situation. 

One day, people with money and power won't control everything. And one day, people with less money and less power will be respected by those with more. One day, money won't matter, and those in power will be just. But today is not that day. 

I'm just glad I've found peace in the turmoil. I'm glad I have a reasonably good life. 

But I'm sad for those who remain stressed out, worried, frightened. This world can be a terrifying place. 

[ Photo | WashingtonPost.com ]