Oil Oil Everywhere.

These photos come from The Los Angeles Times website. A picture is worth a thousand words, which is helpful in this situation where language seems to lack the breadth to be useful.

A Pelican, covered in oil.

BP head tours this affected area; bastard.

Oil sits atop the water, 10 miles off the coast of Louisiana.

A helocopter view of the Gulf.

Another helicopter view, oil swirls in the Gulf.

Edge of the spill. In the Gulf, near The Chandeleur Islands