Something Someone Else Said

"Of all the lessons we can learn from the BP fiasco, the simplest, and the first we should apply to offshore-drilling laws, is this: Don't open any holes you can't close. If the well site is too deep for humans to reach, drill a simultaneous relief well so you can plug a blowout promptly. If a relief well is too expensive, don't drill at all. Or you can keep robots on hand to shut down leaks. But they'll have to be better robots than the ones we're now watching.

Today's laws don't come anywhere near this standard." -William Saletan, Slate.com.

Amen. Now if someone could just tell me how we get laws passed that adequately regulate the multi-billion dollar industries that are legally allowed to contribute virtually unlimited amounts of money to the campaign coffers of the greedy, power-hungry politicians who would ostensibly be passing those improved future laws, I'm all ears. Giving money to a politician isn't always a form of free speech; sometimes it's just a bribe.

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