Kalamazoo River

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Man....

Submitted by dingey on Fri, 07/30/2010 - 9:39am.

…it is good to see some comprehensive coverage.  I have to admit that I’ve been getting all my news from facebook, essentially, so I feel like I’ve been pretty well informed because all of my Kalamazoo River-based homies are keeping me filled in.  Is there any national coverage of this by the “mainstream media”???

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Man....

Submitted by dingey on Fri, 07/30/2010 - 9:39am.

…it is good to see some comprehensive coverage.  I have to admit that I’ve been getting all my news from facebook, essentially, so I feel like I’ve been pretty well informed because all of my Kalamazoo River-based homies are keeping me filled in.  Is there any national coverage of this by the “mainstream media”???

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NBC and Colbert

Submitted by Uncle Arthur on Fri, 07/30/2010 - 10:31am.

Was on NBC news past three nights. And Stephen Colbert talked about it last night as the place where the missing Gulf oil has obviously turned up.

My ancestral home of Galesb*rg has begun to stink of oil and benzene, I’ve heard.

I’m going to key every gas burning vehicle, including my own.

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Volunteers

Submitted by admin on Fri, 07/30/2010 - 3:54pm.

When this story broke, Angie and I (being on vacation and just goofing around at home) decided that we should grab our lovely and sometimes lazy summer kids and volunteer to help with cleanup, containment, etc.

Apparently, that abstract desire to help is a lot more difficult in the real concrete world. We have yet to hear back from anyone she contacted.

And it’s back to work on Monday.

I’ll drown my ineffectual sorrows in some appropriately named Violent Apathy tonight, so there’s that.

See you later on.

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I've heard that from others as well....

Submitted by dingey on Fri, 07/30/2010 - 7:33pm.

…that they’ve had no response from the volunteer line.  That’s messed up.  I know Cinnamon Girl mentioned that one of her former students is washing birds at the bird sanctuary, but he might already be a volunteer or intern there or something. 

This whole incident is really weird from afar.  I…I don’t know what to say.  It’s giving me a weird kind of homesickness, or rather, an incredibly intense long-distance love for that from which I came, if that makes any sense.  All helpless and enraged and Lorax-y.

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