Friday, May 21, 2010

New Rules*

New rule: If you’re going to make money from doing it, you need to have a plan to fix it if it goes wrong. Newer rule: If you expect taxpayers to pick up the tab when things go wrong, then we get a share of the profits when things go right. Newest rule: When Kevin Costner has a better grip on your engineering problem than your engineers, it’s time to take the BP execs, dunk them in their own toxic chemical stew, and put them in jail like the criminals they are.

Seriously. Kevin Costner.

But as usual, Rush Limbaugh knows where to lay the blame. The responsible party is . . . the Sierra Club. Seriously. The Sierra Club. I guess by that reasoning, if we have an outbreak of polio, we can lay the blame squarely at the door of that bastard Jonas Salk.

Top five things BP could use to plug up that oil well:

5. That big furball on Donald Trump’s head, ‘cause it’s not doing him any favors.

4. The bales of cash that BP is raking in every day -- $93 million is pretty absorbent.

3. Rush Limbaugh’s ego.

2. Rush Limbaugh.

1. Finally! An appropriate use for all those unsold copies of Waterworld.

*With apologies to Bill Maher for borrowing his shtick.

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