Maybe it is British Petroleum after all

As the New York Times points out, BP had two strikes against it going into the current disaster; and as we all know, three strikes and you're out.

'Muddling through' simply doesn't hack it in the modern world. A lesson for the British 'gifted amateurs' who have so stubbornly refused to learn even from their own experience over the past century.

Hat-tip Kinsla