Oil

My brother and his wife were visiting our moms down in Florida, and I don't know if you've heard about this, but apparently there's some oil in the water there or something.

In case people forget, there's this handy reminder by the pool:

Tragic

Check out this satellite photo of the ever-growing oil slick, courtesy our friends at British Petroleum. Good thing that we'll be drilling more and more of these wells off the Eastern seaboard.

Everything you see that's reddish-brown is oil. Keeping in mind that this photo is from 400 miles above the earth, all i can say is holy shit that's a lot of oil:

photo via GeoEye