I've got a great story to tell...just trying to decide where to post it first. It's about dirty coal and dirty coal politics in Appalachia. Somedays it seems like an armageddon-level event we're facing here in the coalfields, but I try not get sucked in to the urgency of it. Doing so would unleash nuke-level feelings that, at this point, need to be harnessed for good, not a repeat of Hiroshima. The world already has too many people waging war over coal and other things that come out of the ground.

So, when I tell this story, I need some blogging software that won't hassle me in the process. I need to post it somewhere that it will be seen, because I have too many friends and compatriots whose lives -- yes, literally -- are riding on the will and resolve of the social collective in the United States to stop the genocide and ecocide within our own borders. 

So far, very little hassle. So next I'll try to insert an image:

 (TN Hawk Photo: Muddy waters in Dan Branch following an "Act of God," a.k.a. mine operator incompetence, at Zeb Mountain mine in Campbell County, TN)

Not bad! This could be sweet!

Okay! The "save draft and preview" button works too...now, one final test -- cut and paste a few lines from one of my other blogs:

"If this bill passes in its present form, we can officially announce that coal interests now run Tennessee’s water quality program, and neither we, the people, nor scientific integrity have a real place in the process."

Okay, now check for wonky formatting...yep, it was wonky but the little "remove formatting" button seemed to fix it...let me check it out...

Holy Moly! It worked! Alright. I'm going to go think about this.