dear friends, family, and anonymous google visitors:
i sincerely apologize for the lack of updates to the cage. i’ve been busy — graduating from college … and stuff. wrote a couple of drafts of things to post on here but they didn’t meet my stringent qualifications for publishing, so they’ll sit in a virtual folder for a while until i choose to finish them and share. one is a particularly interesting ramble that i penned on the last day of undergraduate classes. anyways.
the world is an interesting place to inhabit right now — the oil crisis grows in intrigue to me on a daily basis. i sat on my couch yesterday afternoon and flipped between the congressional hearings and ‘keeping up with the kardashians’ for about four hours (no kidding. this is what i’ve become now that i possess two degrees … miserably beholden to gorgeous armenian women. ) and perhaps this will construe me equally as villainous, but i couldn’t help but develop some pity for tony hayward (bp ceo) and the sickeningly incongruous lashing that he took yesterday courtesy our beloved washington lawmakers. yes, the veritable billion gallons of oil which are leaking into the gulf _ at this very moment _ are of great concern to me. i’m concerned for the environment, the economies of the gulf states, and the greater domestic economy, but seriously – is it fair to singularly place the blame on the ceo of a multinational corporation who was, in all likelihood, in ENGLAND when the disaster occurred? i think not. however, i do understand that it is the very nature of the american populace to place blame on someone or something. and who better than the ceo (boo, big business, boo people with nicer things than us) of a foreign DIRTY OIL company. not that we were the ones greedily demanding the oil be drilled to fill up our gas-guzzling automobiles and boats. oh no, not us. and, although he has no other choice, hayward has made select few gaffes in regard to this situation, saying the right thing (legally, morally, and ethically) 99.95% of the time. sure, telling the media that he hoped to resolve the situation because he ‘wanted his life back, too’ was a poor choice of words, but nonetheless true. and you have to have some respect for a man who sits in front of blithering grandstanding congressmen for hours upon hours who first insult his company and then predictably eventually resort to insulting him asking him when he is going to resign. really, congressmen, who the HELL do you think would take that job right now? i don’t care how many golden parachutes are involved, i wouldn’t touch that position with a hundred-foot-pole.