Steve, Cathy, and Nicholas -- Another letter rejected by the KCStar (created 2010-06-07) |
I sent a letter last week in response to a recent Charles Krauthammer column. The KC Star didn't publish it. It was a bit muddled, and I blame the 150 word limit. It is really hard to fit a coherent argument into so few words. Maybe it was too heavy on the sarcasm. Who knows? Anyway, you can read what I originally sent.
Charles Krauthammer has absolved BP from most of the blame in the Gulf oil
spill (Opinion, 6/1/2010). The spill was caused not by carelessness, but rather
by "perfect storm engineering lapses."
Mr. Krauthammer pins much of the blame on federal regulators. Being regulated
gives you a blank check for stupidity. You can make all the mistakes in the
world and then blame them all on the government.
The others sharing blame in Mr. Krauthammer's bizarre world are the
environmentalists. They kept us from drilling in the Pacific, the Atlantic, and
the Arctic. Apparently, we'd have fewer spills if we drilled in more places.
Don't worry, Mr. Krauthammer. We'll be fine once Sarah Palin and all your
friends in the "Drill, Baby, Drill" Party get back in power. More drilling with
less regulation is just the recipe we need to prevent future environmental
disasters.
By the way, you can find the Krauthammer column at
and many other places. One of life's great injustices is how widely published Mr. Karuathammer is and I can't even get a short letter published in the KC Star. The other injustice is the Bill Gates is exactly the same age as I am, and I don't have nearly as much money as he does. Sometimes humor is misunderstood, so let me just say that the last two comments were jokes.
What now?
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