"Our job is not to make up anybody’s mind, but to open minds, and to make the agony of decision-making so intense you can escape only by thinking."
- Fred W. Friendly (1915-1998)

"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth will make you mad."
- Aldous Huxley

"If you have ever injected truth into politics, then you have no politics."
- Will Rogers

Saturday, November 2, 2013

This is Hard to Read

The Center for Public Integrity is at it again....this time it is only indirectly related to government misdeeds.  This time it is an almost unbelievably sad story of how the coal industry has not only set up the conditions for miners to die in pursuit of their profits, but then gone to great lengths to defend/excuse the practice. 

This is a very thorough CPI investigation, but you should read at least the background piece and the first installment. It is long but worth it - the world cannot always be reduced to 140 characters or a reality show where anybody gets to "vote".  

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