Realities of the Post-Spill Gulf of Mexico

Seeking Alpha ^ | July 17, 2010 | Karl Denninger

[arthurus]

I was promised an earth-shattering ka-doom!

Well, not really.

And the spew is not, in fact, funny.

But what's even less funny is the number of people who have come completely unhinged with their "imminent death of everything and everyone" nonsense.

Let's go down the list of the some of the better ones:

Everyone who worked on the Exxon Valdez spill is dead (or alternatively, that across the entire population of those who worked on the Valdez spill, the average age of death is 51.)

Really? Can you source that?

[cripplecreek]

We didn't listen!

[Calusa]

When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that’s what you’re going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England.