oh, haha. Sorry bout that.

Near Dallas, it’s where they do the FCS title game

Where’s Frisco?

It’s just sheltered stupidity. Many of these people were born and raised here and just never left. It’s all they know.

We here in Metro Denver love seeing those once-coal-laden trains that came through town are now loaded with wind turbine parts. If your town wants to survive, they’ll have to adapt to the changing times. I imagine building wind turbines and solar panels (which can be shipped on the same trains that carried coal) pays…

I don’t understand the coal jobs thing. Do people not understand that alternative energy also creates jobs? Argh!

It’s not an industry worth revitalizing. As I said in another thread, I think it’s a fairy tale industry that once upon a time held decent jobs for uneducated people - particularly jobs that through regional isolation and the handed-down folklore of past generations has a romanticism and distorted pride attached to…

I live in Kentucky and though none of my family has ever been coal miners, I’ve been around a few. It’s a distorted sense of pride. If it was good enough for the fathers and grandfathers, then it should be good enough (i.e. available) for them as well.

I’ve done some work in WV, and it’s really the same there in coal towns. It feels like a cultural thing to me as much as an economic one.

Why do these people want to do something that gave them, their fathers, and their grandfathers black lung/cancer and is so dangerous? Is it just a fear of change? Any insight?

I heard back-to-back stories on NPR this morning about coal. The first was about recent upticks in black lung and ongoing efforts to treat it, and the second was about a miner who died in an accident a couple days ago.

Why the fuck is this an industry worth revitalizing? Is anyone lining up to bring back asbestos? How…

I live in a dying coal town on the Colorado’s west slope. People here pride themselves on our one trick pony economy and it’s so fucking stupid. I’ve never lived in a sunnier place, and yet they still cling to coal and discount wind or solar. 3/4 of the people I work with voted for Dump, thinking that he was going to…

I honestly think I’d vote for absolutely anyone who’d provide me with an ALTERNATIVE to coal mining, rather than keep doing it.

+1, +3, +7, +51 . . .

Take your star and go

Maybe the cheerleaders did something completely disgusting and amoral, like going to a restaurant with a married man.

I’ll give you this star, but consider this your warning.

Rumor has it the cheerleaders were also part of a pyramid scheme.

Of course police told them they did nothing wrong; prostitution is completely legal in Horry County.