The 1st Inaugural Mountaineer Bad Beard-Off for Clean Water
As of right now, there are only two things in this world that I am absolutely sure of: The first is that hundreds of thousands of West Virginians are currently suffering the effects of a massive...
View ArticleBowel-Destroying Gummi Bears For Clean West Virginia Water
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! I GIVE YOU THE 1ST INAUGURAL MOUNTAINEER BAD BEARD-OFF FOR CLEAN WATER SUGARLESS GUMMI BEAR EAT-OFF! FOR EVERY 5 DOLLARS YOU DONATE TO HELP PROVIDE CLEAN DRINKING AND BATHING...
View ArticleWill Write (And Do Pretty Much Any Damn Thing) For Donations To West Virginia...
Over the past couple of days, I have embarked on a couple of fairly unorthodox campaigns to try and get people to donate money so that the hundreds of thousands of West Virginians who have been left...
View ArticleIn Most States, Schools Have Snow Days. In West Virginia, Schools Have...
Sunday will mark the one month anniversary of the day that the first reports began trickling in that a small chemical company called Freedom Industries had let between 2,000 and 5,000 gallons of a...
View ArticleTrust is Not a Word We Use Around Here: Life in Chemical Valley During West...
Ask a random West Virginian over the age of 55 who the greatest President of their lifetime was and I’d bet you whatever money I had in my wallet that they’d tell you it was Jack Kennedy. Hell, ask...
View ArticleRage, Rage With West Virginia Against the Dying of Their Right to Clean Water
In May of 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson gave the commencement address at the University of Michigan and first laid out the framework of what would become his vision for America’s “Great Society.”...
View ArticleWe Promise This Will Never Happen Again: Freedom Industries Spills More Waste...
Sometimes, when I come across a story about a chemical spill or environmental disaster in West Virginia, my thoughts lead me to story of the Greek Titan Prometheus. In Greek Mythology, Prometheus was...
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