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Mac McClelland, reporting from Grand Isle almost a year after the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe:
...there's just the big tarballs, a couple of which my companion picks up. An hour later he claims that his hand is burning, which I remember happening when I plunged my fingers in the stuff last year.
I realize that the disaster is sooo 2010, but I think this underscores the fallacy of the whole private-sector -efficiency, faster-better-cheaper line wingers cling to like gospel. Well, it's cheaper alright...especially since without Junior occpying the throne, we were spared a Mission Accomplished, behold-my-codpieced-flightsuit pranceabout.
The only thing fast or efficient is the degree to which our corporatist overlords sweep things under the rug, which these days includes what's left of the middle class.
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Posted by: pansypoo | March 31, 2011 at 13:21
From my years in corporate America, efficiency is neither effective nor accurate, and it also doesn't save money in the medium to long run. It does, however, have the saving grace of looking good on a resume or performance review.
Posted by: Fraud Guy | March 31, 2011 at 21:38
of course your hand was burning. There's solvent dissolved in that tar ball (long complicated carbon chains), and it's dissolving the oils (short, simple carbon chains) in your skin.
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Posted by: mdh | April 01, 2011 at 11:00