| By Clem Guttata
Some other tidbits from around the state today:
* Julian Martin wrote a wonderful letter to the Charleston Gazette editor, Op-ed writer used anti-gay slur:
In a recent op-ed, Carl Hubbard referred to those of us who love our mountains more than money or coal as "limp-wristed."
That is homophobic hate speech designed to dehumanize gay people and everyone who wants our mountains saved.
The gay community comprises 10 percent of our population. That 10 percent includes strip-miners and pro-mountaintop-removal op-ed writers.
This still doesn't explain how the hateful error-riddled op-ed made it into the paper to begin with.
* I hear WV GOP Chair Doug McKinney sent out a fund-raising email full of lies about the health care reform bill that passed the House on Saturday. It's funny how his fund-raising appeals fail to mention Rep. Shelley Moore Capito or any efforts to re-elect her. It's almost like the WV GOP is embarrassed to admit they are part of governing the country and were totally in charge in Washington for most of the last decade.
Oh, and for all of you following Congress via CSPAN Saturday night, did you realize they were meeting "under the cover of darkness"?
* There's a lot of land up for auction this month in West Virginia.
An out-of-state timber investment group hopes to sell 7,000 acres of undeveloped land later this month in what's being called the largest single-day auction of timberlands in West Virginia history.
Also, a second large land auction is scheduled this month, with bidders coming to Tamarack Conference Center in Beckley to make selections from tracts in three counties.
Who does what with it could really change a lot of landscape. Oh, how I hope it stays well managed forested land.
* On a more positive note, major kudos to JH for kicking off a successful relaunch of the Charleston Living Liberally chapter last week. The next meeting will be Thursday, November 19, 2009, 5:30pm - 8:30pm at the Tricky Fish, 1611 Washington Street East, Charleston.
Flickr photo credit: West Virginia hills by Urville Djasim |
