Dan Gross, economics columnist for Slate magazine, has a piece reporting readers' suggestions for punishing BP.
The best ones?
The Quentin Tarantino approach. Get medieval on the executives. Devise punishments that make them physically feel the pain they have caused to others. On this score, our readers were quite imaginative. Nick Inzalaco: "Hit BP executives over the head with every last one of the dead fish." Chad Brick suggested "seppuku for the executives of any firm that colossally screws up." Or we could take all the responsible executives and politicians "coat them all completely in crude oil and throw them in jail until their skin suffocates." Others suggested sentencing BP executives to spend their time cleaning up oil-covered birds. My favorite came from Becca: Raise money to fix the problem by letting BP execs participate in a dunk tank--filled with polluted gulf water.
Sounds about right.
And the libs are against water-boarding?
Or maybe all the Hollyweird Greenie Cannaddict Leftoid Arrested Development types could just hold their breath and kick their feet until the spill stops and they can play hiss-the-villain for the cameras.