Of course, that release followed Monday's announcement that ExxonMobil once more was going to post record second-quarter earnings. That came on the same day the Houston Chronicle reported that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality was accusing ExxonMobil of "failing to timely disclose that a [January 23] spill at its Baytown refinery had coated a nearby public housing project with oil," among other misdeeds. And that came a few days after The Wall Street Journal figured out that the now-infamous Al Gore-An Inconvenient Truth parody circulating on YouTube was made not by some basement loner, but a guy who works for ExxonMobil's lobbyists. For fun, we've included the Good Morning America-Jake Tapper report on that video. But we did mention ExxonMobil's paying kids to landscape local parks during the long, hot summer, right? --Robert Wilonsky