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« Review: The May 2008 issue of Maxim is bloated with advertisements, filled with mindless articles describing fake trends, and relies heavily on the same old soft-core celebrity porn. | Main | This picture makes me very nostalgic » Yeah, but gimmie a real solutionExxon Mobil, the giant oil corporation appearing before the Supreme Court yesterday, had earned a profit of nearly $40 billion in 2006, the largest ever reported by a U.S. company -- but that's not what bothered Roberts. What bothered the chief justice was that Exxon was being ordered to pay $2.5 billion -- roughly three weeks' worth of profits -- for destroying a long swath of the Alaska coastline in the largest oil spill in American history. Can you believe this is still going on? This happened in 1989. More importantly, can you believe we have a Supreme Court more sympathetic to a massive corporation having to pay out 3 weeks of profit than a group of 32,000 fishermen who have lost their livelihood? By fnord12 | February 28, 2008, 10:57 AM | Liberal Outrage |