Uglier Than You Imagine

Via Kevin Drum,, Mother Jones has a great piece on BP's attempt to keep reporters away from the evidence, with pictures that explain why.

We continue on to Grand Isle beach, where toddlers splash in the surf. Only after I've stepped in a blob of crude do I realize that the sheen on the waves and the blackness covering a little blue heron from the neck down is oil.

Read the whole thing and see the nauseating photos here.