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Thanks for pointing out how free-market fundamentalist solutions are failing us in areas crucial to our survival as a species and the health of the planet. Jump-starting alternative energy technology and production seems like an area where we can and should be able to take a loss.

The Fascist Republic of Alabama has a right to exist!

Strong post, Bill.

I stopped taking the Republican Party seriously when Donald Trump dropped out of the race.

You talking about the cops or the protracted. My sympathy for people getting smashed up at protests is pretty minimal when it's clear whAts going to happen and they still go..... You mean the cops, right?

Cops need to get out of the way. What are they protecting in most of these cases anyway, the grass? Trumped up "sanitation" beefs? It's nonsense and is creating more problems than necessary. What's the constitutional right to assemble without the space to do it?

Worship authority much?

I mean, shit, we've still got alot of "creative" destroying to do before we can get your little energy bubble going!

Are you sure things are depressed enough yet?

Dude, just sip 500ml and enjoy...

We'll probably get to start asking questions like that real soon.

You a silly muthafucka.

Me too...

I don't know that it is a "story". It's a funhouse ride corporate puffpiece on the prodigal corporations supposedly returning as saviors to areas where sufficient deregulation, labor discipline, and the right kind of corruption have taken place. Mix in a healthy dose of fear-based nationalism and myopic "if you can't mine or drill it, you've got to frack it" narrative and voile: A resurgent American Pheonix based on a low wage/no wage labor force, a belligerent foreign policy, and a degraded environment. What's new here?

Here's a nice collection of articles, documents, interactive features, and other resources that can help you get up to speed, Sobo.

...more like a horde.

Cardinals fans are anything but working class.

Funny how your professed compassion for jailed potheads doesn't extend to communities effected by fracking. That's okay, we always knew it was only about getting a dispensary next to the Kangen water boutique and the anal bleaching salon.

Lord knows it's nothing like the smug satisfaction that comes from driving a Prius.

Fuckin' baby boomers. Who's more ashamed, their parents or their children?

As long as you're not on the downstream end! After all, you're worth it.

Given what we're already seeing from the fracking process, it isn't an alternative.

Were you thinking coal was going somewhere?