I usually love acquiring new words. However, the words du jour are all horrible — flotilla, plumes of oil, top kill.

The latest effort to stop BP's oil spill has hit a snag. The saw is stuck. Face plant.

They have brought in James Cameron to advise them. James Cameron. Are they planning on putting a blue screen down on the ocean floor and using a little movie magic to make it all go away? Hold me. 

Maureen Dowd says that Obama isn't handling this disaster well at all. Well, lots of people are saying that.

(more links later.)

UPDATE: The word of the day? Tar patties.