re: #50 Gus 802

I think it would have been more effective delivered on site.

There is a real problem we have in this country that is often taboo in the speeches of politicians - the inability to accept that sometimes bad things are just bad and have to be gone through as they can no longer be avoided. There is nothing pretty about the oil spill, it is in every regard a fuck-up. We’re just going to have to trudge through it and lick our chops. The only way to avoid deep water drilling disasters is to not do deep water drilling, but we can’t go down that path because Americans love their cars too damn much.

No elected official can say that, of course, but if you sat at a coffee table with the Nobel prize winner he would tell you of course its true.