Quick! Send former BP CEO Tony Hayward some Ginkgo Biloba. He can’t remember the names of those who died on Deepwater Horizon. That’s surprising: they kept him from getting his life back for a while. Hey, it’s all a matter of circumstance. He probably would have remembered their names if they had attended the yacht races.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.