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Wed, 090610
Damascus Citizens’ Redemption?
Filed under: Media, Wisdom — Rick @ 045106CDT

Earlier this year, I got into a beef with a [misguided] group of environmentalists in rural Pennsylvania.

Long story short, while I approved of their goals, I disdained their approach, which lacked charity and empathy. Attacking their neighbors, I thought, gained nothing. Worse, it lost the all-important sympathy of those neighbors, some of whom are pretty darned cool and enlightened. The environmentalists disagreed.

All along, I’d thought that their beef wasn’t with their neighbors, many of whom had agreed to sell drilling rights on their land to gas prospectors who were going to use a dangerous technique, but rather with federal regulators (a.k.a. the Bush Administration) who’d agreed to allow said technique to go unregulated.

Finally, some lawmakers are about to introduce legislation that would regulate the technique — which is what should have happened in the first place. Here’s hoping that the bill passes, and that my environmentalist acquaintances can repair the damage they’ve done by implying that their neighbors are mendacious idiots.

Maceration!
Filed under: Food, glorious food — Rick @ 043041CDT
Sat, 090530
Hey, I made Snopes!
Filed under: Media, Technology -v- Culture — Rick @ 185526CDT
Wed, 090520
Musique Moderne
Filed under: Musicality — Rick @ 034117CDT
Life on Mars RIP, Ashes to Ashes redux
Filed under: Media — Rick @ 030838CDT
Fixed!
Filed under: Meta — Rick @ 022820CDT
Sat, 090307
For? Four? Vier? Fer?
Filed under: Media, Technology -v- Culture — Rick @ 040722CST
Thu, 090305
For f**k’$ sake….
Filed under: Media, Politics, Wisdom — Rick @ 055721CST
Sat, 090221
Damn
Filed under: Media, Politics, Wisdom — Rick @ 072555CST
Fri, 090123
Shorter Damascus Citizens
Filed under: Media, Meta — Rick @ 210355CST


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