There's just no way to look at the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and say that "the glass is half full." As we all know, thanks to the 24-hour news coverage of the disaster assailing us like, well, an oil spill, the glass isn't half full or half empty: It's gushing over. And the Gulf's ecosystems, communities, and industries are, to put it in a nutshell, over a barrel.
But there may be one silver lining to this thoroughly depressing disaster, which is that the tide may be turning against offshore drilling. Even the most ardent backers of oil exploration seem to be reconsidering the wisdom of allowing more drilling in our nation's coastal waters, as "drill, baby, drill!" sounds a little too much like "spill, baby, spill!"
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