Environment

We're A Very Weird Nation

This article on NOLA.com caught my eye. The headline:

Offshore drilling ban could be a blow to Louisiana economy

And the key quote:

"It's bad enough that we have an oil spill to deal with and the fishermen can't work. Now they're going to take away the oil industry, and we'll have nothing, " said Chett Chiasson, executive director for the Greater Lafourche Port Commission, which runs Port Fourchon, the launching point for 90 percent of the deepwater activities in the Gulf of Mexico.

It's bad enough that so-and-so has lung cancer and has lost all of his hair -- and now they tell him he's not allowed to smoke in the chemo ward.