It seems like, lately, controversial posts are becoming a habit with me.
To begin with - I appreciate with all of my being the help I have gotten from different people in my crusade against mountaintop removal coal mining. I have had encouragement, critique, advice, denial, and outright hostility since beginning this fight. Most times I probably don’t say what is on my mind as delicately as the situation warrants but the reason for that - it is me simply being me. You can take a big pile of crap, paint it shiny red, put a pretty blue bow on it and you still have a big pile of crap. So I bypass the paint and bow part - is that so wrong?
Most of the time in discussing mountaintop removal coal mining there is no way to say what is on your mind without offending someone, putting someone off, or just flat pissing someone off. I don’t even try to walk that fine line. Honestly, we don’t have time for it. There is a mountain over in Clays Branch I’d like to go hiking on next week. It would be nice if that was still an option.
I don’t mean to piss you off or offend you in any way. But if I do so in the process of telling the truth - I can’t really be held responsible. I know people like a pretty picture but there is nothing about mountaintop removal coal mining that is pretty - no matter how many coats of paint it gets.
April 24th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
There is time for playing nice, and there is time for cleaning fish. I’m offended by people getting offended. You are sure right about that, this ain’t no pointy headed academic debate that has no real world implications. it does. and that is worth gettin all het up over.