In his opening statement yesterday at the Elena Kagan hearing, Al Franken cuts to heart of the matter about what the Supreme Court means to the average citizen.

We elected a constitutional law professor who gave an 18 minute rehash of the same energy goals as the last 8 presidents at the linguistic level of our already dumbed-down, socially promoted, no child left behind 10th graders and America didn’t get it.

When BP describes the greatest environmental catastrophe in this country’s history as an “insignificant trickle” and then upgrade it to “5,000 barrels a day,” when in fact it’s on a magnitude many times that amount, it’s a good faith estimate given the information they have available.

How much oil have we leaked so far? And how much oil is that in terms of usage? Comparing NPR’s June 11 estimate of the leak rate to annual oil usage in the United States.

A memorial day remembrance.

BP will be synonymous with environmental catastrophe for the foreseeable future. And they probably don’t care.