At last, our long national nightmare is reaching it's middle

11 deaths. 86 days. Up to 9,000 square miles. Up to 8,600,000 gallons of crude oil.

It's stopped. Probably. Temporarily. It won't really be fixed, truly for-good fixed, until they finish drilling relief wells and plug it from the inside, which won't happen for quite a while now. So there'll probably be more crude oil spilling into the Gulf yet. And if we continue living the way we have, it's really just a matter of time until there's another offshore drilling accident just like this one.

In other BP news, they've admitted that they strongly lobbied for the release of the guy who blew up a commercial airliner in 1988, because he was Libyan and the Libyan government wanted him released, and BP wanted to drill for oil off the course of Libya. The bomb this guy planted killed 280 people.