What's a rogue gusher when you never had a cherry tree anyway?

Fingerpointing, dear reader, has been elevated to an art. Halliburton is pointing the finger at BP. Transocean is also pointing the finger at BP. And BP, not to be outdone, is pointing fingers at both Halliburton and Transocean.

In the meantime, enough oil is flowing into the Gulf of Mexico to fill 20,000 10-gallon hats a day, threatening the environment and thousands of livelihoods across an immense area from Texas to Florida and beyond.

Billions of dollars are at stake in what may become the worst ecological disaster in the history of the United States, caused by an explosion at the Deepwater Horizon rig on April 20; and none of the three main players in this disaster wants to be left holding the wrench. They'd blame it on the bossa nova if Hugo Chavez were from Brazil and not Venezuela.