Pure evil exists. We do not like to admit it, for it scares us to acknowledge the existence of pure evil. If you doubt me on the existence of pure evil, read the history, watch the movies, or see the operas that tell of Agamemnon, Elektra, Salome, Nero, Lucretia Borgia, the Inquisition, Nazis, Stalin, Pot Pol, [...]
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Sunday Mining Pure Evil Opera
Posted in Church, Coal, mountaintop mining, opera, Tailings, tagged bible, evil, lucretia borgia, mountaintop mining, opera, religion, rodelinda. handel, Salome on January 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Mountaintop Mining: Post-Closure Success Stories
Posted in Coal, mountaintop mining, North America, Reclamation, tagged Appalachia, Coal, Kentucky, mining, mountaintop, sustainable development, Virginia on January 4, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Many criticize moutaintop mining. Here is a “Readers-Digest” version of a story on beneficial use of post-mountain-top mining:
USA Election 2010: What Will It Mean for Mining?
Posted in About the news, California, Coal, Global Warming, Gold, Human relations and mining, Jobs and Salaries, mountaintop mining, North America, People, tagged 2010, Alaska, Democrat. Republican, election, gays, Libertarian, military, mining, Palin, politician, ron paul on November 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today being election day in the USA, we speculate on what different outcomes may mean for mining. Beware: this posting may offend. It is, however, pure bloggery: speculative and prevaricative.
Three mining ladies duke out global warming and religion
Posted in Church, Global Warming, mountaintop mining on August 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The rich and the religious are different from the rest of us. At dinner the other evening, a rich lady told me of her trip in her 44-ft yacht to Catalina, that rather desolate island off the coast of Orange County. She was complaining about the lady in the 38-ft yacht, who apparently had the timidity [...]
Mountaintop Mining
Posted in Coal, mountaintop mining, Uranium on June 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Somehow it is almost un-American to imagine that one man, at the top, can solve all the nation’s problems. I refer to recent reports that environmentalists are disappointed that Obama has not already banned mountaintop mining. So too gays who believe he should have permitted universal marriage. And that uranium prospecting near the Grand Canyon [...]
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