Posts Tagged: denise giardina
What a World
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Being A Miner Is A Very, Very, Very Hard Job

| August 23rd, 2010

"The miners are four and a half miles inside the winding mine and about 2,300 feet vertically underground. They are inside a mine shaft shelter the size of a small apartment. The authorities said they had limited amounts of food." -Wow. After this spring's disaster in West Virginia, and Matewan and Margo Timmins' aching a capella, we are reminded once again of the incredible hardships suffered by people we send under the earth to go get us our valuable minerals. The good news: 33 miners who have been trapped inside a collapsed gold and copper in Chile since August 5th are alive. The bad news: they will [...]

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Maybe West Virginia And Virginia Should Switch Places

| April 8th, 2010

"Virginia has been making big leaps lately in the category of general craziness. We all remember the Legislature's heroic work in passing a bill to protect Virginia citizens from having microchips planted in their bodies against their will. And that the sponsor said he was concerned the chips could be a 'mark of the beast' that would be used by the Antichrist at the end of days." -Gail Collins today, on how Governor Bob McDonnell's institution of April as Confederate History Month is embarrassing his state. Considering this in light of the sad essay Denise Giardina wrote yesterday about the recent mining disaster in West Virginia, [...]