Robert E. Murray – the unsmiling face of Capital. See him here, in some kind of spine-straightening harness, handing over a plaque to a fellow coal-industry ghoul -- no doubt it's an award for health and safety in the shafts.
In the popular imagination, coal miners are a beloved bunch, but yet we recklessly continue to let 'em die.
Did anybody else catch a few flashes of Murray's act since the cave-in? Under the circumstances such a display of willful public defiance -- worthy of a Gilded Age Vanderbilt -- makes me more sure than ever that we're in for a mighty sea change round here.
If these six men are found dead under all that illegally produced debris -- after all this guy's shamelessly chin-jutting carrying-on -- he's exactly what 37 years of free-range reagoonianism leads to: a combative hunchbacked profit ape, the perfect poster creep... eh?
What a troop of insensate croaking bullfrogs our present generation of leading captains of private enterprise have become. I'd venture to guess they're just about ripe enough for a ruthless public harvesting.
Comments (3)
Thank Dog I'm not the only one who was more than a little bit disturbed when, the morning after the big cave-in in Utah, NBC "Today" brought on none other than the owner of the goddamn' mine to give us the rundown of the situation.
Talk about Dubya Tee Eff?
Posted by Mike Flugennock | August 17, 2007 2:23 AM
Posted on August 17, 2007 02:23
They're sick, sick, sick.
Posted by Michael Hureaux | August 19, 2007 9:46 PM
Posted on August 19, 2007 21:46
how will the titans of the abstract rule, though, with iron generosity, or light-speed faith?
Posted by hapa | September 14, 2007 9:23 PM
Posted on September 14, 2007 21:23