Quote of the Day

Charlie Pierce, on the Chevron Plant explosion lawsuit:

You've got to be a special kind of arrogant to blame your company's corroded pipe that caused an explosion and fire at your company's refinery on the "failed leadership" of the city you poisoned, but that's the kind of arrogance that has arisen as the relationship between American business and American government has shifted so dramatically over the last 40 years. That's the kind of arrogance that gets embedded in the corporate class when it looks around and sees no penalties being exacted by the government for the depredations the corporate class has unleashed on the people for whom the government is the only real protection. This is yet another consequence of looking forward, and not back.