"Federal land in Wyoming holding roughly 750 million tons of coal will be leased to mining companies, the Interior Department announced." —We're really getting the larger culture war on all fronts these days, aren't we! But good news for haters of America: all that coal just makes overseas jobs.

An unbelievable mining accident happened yesterday in West Virginia, killing 25, with 4 missing. The mine is owned by Performance Coal, a subsidiary of Massey Energy Co.-the "largest coal producer in Central Appalachia" which had a "record setting year for safety" in 2009. Also, you know: helmed by pretty much just evil, in the form of CEO Don Blankenship: "Union leaders say Mr. Blankenship, 56, is the main reason that less than a quarter of the state's coal miners are now organized, down from about 95 percent just three decades ago. And environmentalists describe him as the biggest force behind a highly destructive form of mining called [...]

England police arrested 114 people at a school in Nottingham for 3 1/2 to 11-year-olds; police said the hippies were planning a demonstration at a nearby coal-fired power station. Fortunately, the long-hairs are all locked up before they even had a chance to do anything harmful to the source of global warming. Yay democracy!