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The television is on at the beauty salon this morning watching BP testify before Congress, every eye and ear tuned to the big screen as we go about the important job of beauty.

Thelma is taking careful notes for dating purpose.  “I’ve never in my life heard so many different ways to call someone a worthless butthead,” she says.  “You never know when you’re going to need those words.”

Juanita Herownself threw a hairbrush at the teevee screen when she heard Texas Congressfool Joe Barton, who is wholly owned by big business, express pure horror at what he called a “shakedown” of a private company over the $20 billion being put in escrow.  “Old Whore Joe is far more upset with Obama’s promise that BP will pay for the clean up than he is with BP for causing the mess.  That’s why we call him Old Whore Joe.”

“Besides, I think ‘shakedown’ is the wrong term.  If I was President I would have informed them nicely that I’m going to come after them with intent to barbeque,” she promises.