We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it’s time we paid some damn attention to them.
So we’ll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day’s work. Maybe two comments, even.
This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involving wit, clarity and whatever else we feel like at the moment.
We told you about Shell Chemical paying the county $500,000 for not informing it of five pollution incidents at their Deer park plant.
One reader seemed to know why the misunderstanding occurred.
Jim C wrote:
They probably laid off the people in charge of notifying the county to buy new flat-screen monitors.
This article appears in Sep 1-7, 2011.