The New York Times:
“[The Gulf of Mexico] has been the nation’s sacrifice zone, and has been for 50-plus years.”
Last week, the emcee that accompanies the [female] oil wrestlers yelled into the microphone, “Let that oil gush! Let that money flow!” The workers—part of the new Grand Isle scenery of helicopters, Hummers, and National Guardsmen, serious people in uniforms and coveralls and work boots—the workers around the wrestling ring, drunk and blowing cash from jobs that might kill them, cheered.