By any other name, "British Petroleum" still smells bad

The NYT reported that the British are now unhappy that some Americans are calling BP "British Petroleum."  So I wrote a humorous column for Salon, which they headlined, "It'll always be 'British Petroleum' to me," though I was kind of partial to "The British Invasion" or "The B's are coming":

Fraser Nelson, the editor of the Spectator, blogged last week that "BP has not — for many years — stood for British Petroleum — you won't find the two words anywhere in its annual report."

Nelson...