Bobbing Along on the Beautiful Briny Sea

From the “you can’t make this stuff up” department:

[BP CEO Tony] Hayward took a break from overseeing the energy giant’s efforts to contain the undersea leak so he could watch his 52-foot yacht “Bob” participate in the J. P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race.

If you put that description in fiction people would say: “the J. P. Morgan reference is too much; your satire is too heavy-handed.”

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6 Responses to Bobbing Along on the Beautiful Briny Sea

  1. Andrew June 19, 2010 at 10:21 pm #

    The plutocracy never fails to make me facepalm.

  2. Anon73 June 19, 2010 at 11:06 pm #

    I don’t get the reference to JP Morgan…

    • Mabuse June 20, 2010 at 1:14 am #

      I’m guessing it’s something to do with his famous observation about the prices of yachts “If you have to ask, you can’t afford it.”

  3. Anna O. Morgenstern June 22, 2010 at 6:46 pm #

    If you read any Rothbardian take on history… or really any sort of non-laudatory history…

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