Gulf Coast BP Blues

We are full of positive thinking  --

If your bread is stale, make toast;
A creative chef without utensils can find a way to stir soup.

I'm a hard-core optimist, but, with that mind-boggling, crude oil disaster, I echo Lee Marvin's character in the "The Dirty Dozen."  

"I don't like it. I think it stinks." 

Thanks to BP's traumatic, gigantic screw-up, people are going to have anxiety and increased risk of long-term mental health issues. 

Addiction problems may resume; epics of depression will dibilitate and  irritibility is going to rule.  

There always is hope; but for the Gulf Coast, it's going to be slippery to hold.