Tuesday, July 27, 2010

TUESDAY: A crude figure.

BP is now estimating that they will spend $32 billion dealing with the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Outgoing CEO Tony Hayward noted that most of the money was paid to journalists to get them to stop using the term "tar balls." New CEO, Bob Dudley, is hoping to re-brand the ecological disaster in a positive light by giving it the nickname, "Slick."

A 20-day expedition by scientists down to the Titanic has been planned for August, which will result in a high-tech 3D map of the sunken shipwreck. James Cameron has already bought the rights to the map, which he plans to adapt into the 2012 release, "Titanic Map - 3D." The movie will allow viewers the experience of looking at the map for three and a half hours, while Cameron recites Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States to his Oscars, and is expected to cost $875 million to make.

Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell claims that leaked documents about the war "[involve] secrets that should not be disseminated into the public domain and could potentially endanger our operations and our forces in Afghanistan." Army officials are concerned that the public might learn just how complicated and intricate their inability to do anything in the region actually is. Most of the 90,000 confidential pages contained instructions for how to complicate situations with locals and hilarious, morale-raising email forwards.