SlowpokeBlog

It takes a lot to get me really worked up these days about something bad the Bush administration is doing. Don't get me wrong -- I'm constantly appalled -- but one gets sort of used to the steady stream of abominations burbling out of the White House after a while. The new strip-mine rule gave me pause, however.

According to this NY Times article, as of Friday the Bushies gave the green light to mountaintop removal mining, allowing mining companies to dump waste in streams, effectively obliterating them. This practice is destroying vast parts of Appalachia, all for a filthy source of energy we need less of if we hope to combat global warming. It is diabolically short-sighted.

I didn't even have room in the cartoon to talk about the sludge.