In the Arena

摘要

My favorite metaphor, among thernmyriad gushing forth from the Great Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico, is the "junk shot." The notion that the propulsion of man-made garbage-chunks of metal, knotted ropes, golf balls (!) and so forth-into the mess of busted pipes might stanch the flow of liquid-carbon garbage had a certain ring to it. Let the junk bury the junk. It seemed so perfectly polluted; but then everything about the disaster reeked of garbage.