....with my own two hands.

Seriously, people....

• Skeptical and uninformed? Turns out Global Warming is old news: Global Warming Timeline. "Search Newspaper Articles about Global Warming in more than 50,000 Historical Newspaper Pages." Neat site.


• The main culprit in that darnded Global Warming is burning coal, much of which has been blasted out of the mountains. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who calls MTR mining the worst environmental disaster in US history recently wrote in an op-ed for the Washington Post: "Mining syndicates are detonating 2,500 tons of explosives each day -- the equivalent of a Hiroshima bomb weekly -- to blow up Appalachia's mountains and extract sub-surface coal seams....
  On this continent, only Appalachia's rich woodlands survived the Pleistocene ice ages that turned the rest of North America into a treeless tundra. King Coal is now accomplishing what the glaciers could not -- obliterating the hemisphere's oldest, most biologically dense and diverse forests."
  Jr. really hits on the obvious-yet-unseen and sobering details: "Coal is not an economic engine in the coalfields. It is an extraction engine." Also, over-mechanized coal mining today provides as little as two (2) percent of the jobs in Central Appalachia.
  
• More skillful and heart-felt music at The Purple Fiddle: Dangermuffin! Def. a top ten favorite show in Thomas!


• All Good bound to be a bunch of blazing hot tunes and dancing goons....

What did the Buddha ask of the hot dog vendor?
Make me one with everything.


• Food for thought: "At this point in history, the most radical, pervasive, and earth-shaking transformation would occur simply if everybody truly evolved to a mature, rational, and responsible ego, capable of freely participating in the open exchange of mutual self-esteem. Then, there would be a real New Age."
  -Ken Wilber ^^^ %%% $$$ ### @@@ !!!

Sounds like some capture the flag is in order. S. Pitt's B'day is on August 3rd...a Monday; thus, a game will be arranged for the previous day of Sunday. Front Street of Thomas...Time? Something like four (4) or so...enough time to play for as long as people want to and celebrate a day of birth and eat yummy pot-luck food. Yes!