Murderer

more important to our economy, and not less over time. why? because our Oil Masters would rather make a ton of money pulling it out of the ground to make "oil," and keep us in our current energy insanity, than invest money in alternative technologies.

i predict that this story will disappear from the national radar in just a few months. like the shootings at VATech have. forgotten, dead americans, whatever, the thing that matters is that No Republicans Were Hurt in the making of this tragedy.

i do love TexasKaos, amanda and her crew do outstanding work.

Tonight on TCM, "Ace In The Hole", at 9:15pm EDT...Kirk Douglas in this 1951 classic, about a down-and-out newspaper reporter who values his career over the safety of a man trapped in a mine. Director Billy Wilder recognized then and skewered mercilessly what we today call a media circus.

Then rent "Harlan County USA", the 1976 Academy Award winning documentary (made mostly by women, and clearly giving women a large role in the film's successful union organizing) that is so searing that after watching it recently my wife went around the house turning off lights (mostly still off) and said she will never again think of electricity and coal mining without shame for our country and our way of life.

in my tiny, not very efficient or wholly sober, haid.

forgive the nominal confusion. what i said about TK stands.

While tragic and spectacular, mine cave-ins are not the largest source of deaths in the mines. Breathing coal dust over a long period of time has killed more men. Taking coal out of mines needs technology to replace the endangered workers beneath the surface. Developing this technology will probably never be done by the existing corporate evildoers - an enlightened administration would begin encouraging the needed development.

Ruth

perhaps we'll find a recently unemployed former AG by the side of the road, and we can blow dust in his face.