The queen of denial

I have been in denial. While others have taken up the fight, suspending their careers, I have rested, waiting for the shadbush in my front yard to signal spring.

No more. I am no anarchist. I believe in the power of good government to protect and to serve. But good government does not forsake nature at the behest of corporations.

The plan to install high-power electric transmission lines along the Upper Delaware, in the aptly designated Wild and Scenic Rivers system, is flawed on many levels.

Along the proposed stretch, significant amounts of clear-cutting would displace an entire ecosystem. The prospect of homes being claimed by eminent domain is a serious threat to my personal ecosystem.

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‘Vy you? Vy anybody?’

Novelist Kurt Vonnegut Jr. passed away recently. (Or, as he might have put it: he is now defunct. So it goes.) His most famous work, “Slaughterhouse-Five,” part science fiction novel and part WWII memoir, is based on his experiences around the firebombing of Dresden (among other things). When the firebombing occurred, Vonnegut was a prisoner of war, and being held in the basement of a slaughterhouse.

There’s a moment in the book when an American POW is speaking to one of the guards. The American says to him, “Why me?” and the guard replies, “Vy you? Vy anybody?”

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