That's a Slick Name!

This should be a wonderful time at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach. A fancy new exhibit for sea otters is opening. A celebratory press conference is scheduled for the very day that Your Humble Blogger bruises the tips of his little fingers by writing this.

But the hoopla and the happy visitors and frolicking otters will have to take a seat to controversy over the new exhibit's name. In honor of its largest corporate contributor, the exhibit is "The BP Sea Otter Habitat."

Yes, the same BP (British Petroleum) that is at the center of an environmental catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico. Ouch!

The Los Angeles Times reports.