What's news today: Mining Remains Deadly

Wonkette has nicknamed Abramoff AMBRAMOFFUCKAH which we think is nice and classy ...

Sorry there isn't more offering today - we could get all worked up and bothered about news out of Dee Cee but why ... it's all wait and see, smoke and mirrors, turn out the lights and switch partners, shit with little to no shinola.

The death of the coal miners in West Virginia, a story the old gray lady got wrong and buried below the fold, grips me with a sort of sadness that needs to be attended to and heard (see ABC affiliate WCHS's story: Mining, death way of life in West Virginia's coalfields).

And not just here in the US: Look at the mining incidents in CHINA ...

We need unions more than ever!