Hello World,

Today I stand before you in profuse apology. "Why?", you ask? Well, someone has to do it.

They always taught us in school to clean up messes. Even if they weren't ours, we ought to clean them up. We have the civic... uhh I mean classroom duty to do so, because, regardless of who or what caused the mess, its making life hell for ALL of us. My very simple (some may say naive) question is: If kindergarteners get it, why doesn't the rest of the world?

I'm sure you have already guessed I'm talking about the BP oil spill, and President Obama's heroic and OH SO PRODUCTIVE press conference. In it, he dynamically stated "No matter what happens, BP WILL pay".

I cannot thoroughly, calmly or coherently (the afformentioned are mutually exclusive) describe my distaste for this statement because as I have stated in my all-too-clever metaphor, these are grown people who call themselves world leaders. They bear the weight of the entire world on their shoulders, and yet, they would rather play the blame game than take care of the crisis at hand.


Another analogy, if you will: BP is the murderer, we are the mourning mother, the earth (sea life, environment,etc) is our dead child, and the government is the judge. Mr. Judge tells us: Ma'am, your child was brutally attacked and murdered. BUT IT'S OKAY! Mr. Murderer is getting a life sentence!


I hope you see something terribly wrong with this picture. The murderer being contained... but that doesn't brign the child back. Likewise, we could make BP pay, but that doesn't solve any of our environmental issues.

I think we have lost sight of what is really vital to survival. I mean, yes, the economy must be revived. And yes, we need to find a cure for cancer. And SURE, America HAS to be the the first to invent a computer the size of your big toe. But what does any of this matter if we don't have a world on which to enjoy the fruits of our labors? Its sad enough that people these days (be them political leaders, or just the average citizen) need additional incentive to protect our earth, but the fact that poeple continue to veg out when give the chance to step up just makes me want to lose faith in humanity.

Frustrations let out. Oxygen let in. Carbon dioxide let out. LADY GAGA choreography let in.