Ahh, the agony of irony! Two stories in the continuing saga of the BP destruction of the Gulf of Mexico happened this week, but neither made the news in any big way. The first came out of New Orleans, where a federal judge approved a $4 billion settlement in for BP. News stories report that this is a record settlement, but they don’t mention it’s just 16% of their 2012 profit. The next story is from the Macondo well disaster site itself, where an unexplained oil slick has been spreading from the site of the well since autumn. Ask your friends if they’ve heard anything about it!
