Is the Gulf Oil Spill Too Pretty To Clean Up?

The forecast for the Gulf Oil spill today is: lots of little oil spills! That can’t be good. In other news, the 100-ton containment box lowered yesterday may or may not work, which we will discover over the next week. Pictures show that the containment dome is delightfully oily! And the Gulf? Very end-of-the-world pretty.

Florida landfall should take place sometime this weekend. Which is good news!

Because the picture on the front page of today’s Times has me thinking that this oil spill wasn’t such a bad thing after all. Those colors! It’s like a beautiful nuclear sunrise.