Aaaaaand DISCUSS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M_XbeXDNnM&feature=player_embedded

Above is a lovely clip from one Don Blankenship, a normally reclusive coal magnate with a history of massive political coffer-stuffing and occasional reporter-punching. Recently, you may have seen his jowly, mustachioed mug on the news because one of his biggest mines in West Virginia collapsed last week, killing twenty-nine workers in the worst American mining disaster in four decades. The mine that collapsed, by the way, had been hit with fifty-seven safety violation citations in the previous month alone. Mr. Blankenship has been a longtime advocate of free-market, deregulated capitalism of the Milton Friedman/Ayn Rand variety, and he was also a major booster of the recent Supreme Court ruling to completely abolish restrictions on corporate spending in the electoral sphere. Whether he keeps his job or not will be up to his investors, but he probably isn't planning on applying for a position at the EPA.
Well, at least not until Sarah Palin's President. Then I reckon he'll be kind of a shoo-in.

His argument here is so diffuse and paranoid that I'm too exhausted to try and dissect it, but feel free to discuss it in the comment section.

Also, if you're interested in making a charitable donation to a fund set up for the families of the Upper Big Branch miners killed in the explosion and ensuing collapse, the only reputable one I could find was run by the West Virginia Council of Churches (wvcc.org), and they're state-approved and everything. Otherwise I'm sure the Red Cross is doing their thing there with whatever resources aren't being taken up with their work in Haiti and Brazil (which are both still in desperate need, by the way, but I don't want to lay too big a guilt trip on anybody) and elsewhere. Okay, back to work.