The good news about BP...

Yes, there's a silver lining about this catastrophic oil spill and it's quite simply that it will be the overdose of insanity that pushes our government to finally do something about our dependence on foreign as well as domestic fossil fuels.

It's just great that this unprecedented mess happened when Obama was president instead of Cheney, and after all the pictures of oil-drenched pelicans – which by the way were even more powerful than the humongous leak spewing out of the riser pipe – even the reddest of the American red-necks will begin to understand that it's perhaps time to explore something outside of the old oil and gas well. Perhaps even our moron republicans will be inclined to seek some alternative to stupidity. That would be quite a change; it would in fact be a revolution!