Alex Beam wrote a funny column in today’s Herald Tribune about BP: “Someday we will look back on these days and smile. Mel Brooks discovered the lighter side of Adolf Hitler less than 25 years after the end of World War II. Soon, we too will guffaw at the suggestion that anyone ever ate shrimp from the Gulf of Mexico, or paddled a kayak through the marshes — what marshes? — of the Mississippi River Delta. Times change, and we change with them.
Godspeed, my friends. And thank you for drilling.”

Times change, and we change with them, that’s undoubtedly true.

Well, some people don’t. That’s something you could easily forget if you only rely on television and newspapers.