to call corporations citizens and say they re just equivalent to you and me, you and me, we don t have the same year to year options of venue shopping for the best tax liability, for the least regulations, for the least account billion. you might remember us reporting that even though transocean is a swiss company, yeah, whatever, the rig that exploded and sank in the gulf was flying the flag of where? the marshall islands. why was that purportedly swiss rig flying the flag of the marshall islands when transocean isn t based in the marshall islands, when the rig wasn t built in the marshall islands, when the workers on the rig didn t come from the marshall islands? it s a good question. it was a flag of convenience, as they say. convenient in the sense that preventing to be a rig from the marshall islands meant that deepwater horizon could avoid pes beiky regulations. the new york times reported today that, quote, no one from the marshall islands ever