Mud Standing News Today

Time for todays "wordplay" where we take a term in the headlines that might be unfamiliar to a lot of people and explain it. today, weve got "mud," which doesnt mean what you think it means, at least in the context of the gulf oil disaster. your average mud is wet, soft earth, right? well, the mud everyones focused on today is drilling mud, a manufactured fluid, usually a bentonite clay base. right now, it is the main ingredient in bps static kill plan. v theyve got more than 1 million gallons o...