A hot week indeed.
Several fires in the valley interrupted power and called out all the fire crews. (You’ll have to scrounge up 50 cents for a real paper to get all the stories.) The scariest was in Kerby where several agencies responded to knock down a fire started by “scrappers” burning insulation from wire. Maybe the folks who stole all the Cave’s wire?
Did someone mention dumb tweakers? Deputies nab crank and cash…note to tweakers, when transporting large amounts of drugs and cash, follow all traffic rules! I guess if they were smart they wouldn’t be dealing drugs for a living.
In the print edition (a.k.a dead tree edition) we have a story about how the governor opposes drilling off the coast. That seems like a no-brainer for most. It was George H.W. Bush (for the record he was not a “radical environmentalist”) who put the law into effect. Our nation is addicted to oil. If an addict wants to quit, does more of the drug make it better? May we should ask Batty.
On a lighter note: we have tons of photos from Bluegrass festival up in our gallery.
On our wingnut awards, my boss is worried about details…do we nominate someone? is there voting? will we need the UN to monitor the voting?
I have the first nominee. Why is it that anonymity brings out the stupid in people. (It does make it easy to insult them though.) The idiot that I am referring to wrote a comment on the letters last week. It seems we have some radical tree-huggers out there and this one thinks that attacks on “extreme environmentalists” deserve a hate-filled and rude response.
Whether or not they deserve rudeness, I propose that the approach of using violent concepts to point out the fact that someone is not sensitive is not effective on multiple fronts. First, the person writing the original statement is rather unlikely to respond with, “Oh, my ideas were misplaced, you are right. I should kill myself.”
Second, folks who consider themselves moderate just think you are a wacko. Finally, even folks who might agree with you cringe at the crudeness of your attack. It’s a lose, lose, lose proposition.
Next time let’s see if we can play nice…OK?
