Back when we were a reporter in McMinnville, Oregon, we covered a dump.
Sorry, landfill. When you’re a reporter, you have to be careful with your terminology.
And not just a landfill, but a new landfill, a landfill that was to go where no landfill had gone before, at least in Yamhill County. Not in anybody’s backyard, but next to some farmland, and a creek. Virgin soil.
How satisfied were you with your candy?
Satisfied
Not satisfied
Dude, you gave me a rock
The story coming out of the New Mexico filming location didn’t make sense to us until we read about the assistant director. The AD, if you’re not familiar with the industry or don’t watch DVD extras, actually runs the set. The director may be in charge, but for the crew, the AD’s the Boss.
And the crew was having problems with this one, particularly over gun-safety procedures — to the point there was a walkout Thursday morning, with notices posted to hire replacements.
The problem was that the AD didn’t give a shit.
1. Candy corn!
2. Piles of leaves!
3. That toy you loved that nobody remembers because they weren’t kids between 1966-1975!
It was the Smithsonian headline that got our attention: “The American Bumblebee Has Vanished From Eight States”.
One of them was our ancestral home, Oregon. So we posted the story to Mark Zuckerberg’s Living Hell. Upon which an ancestral homie mentioned that he saw a bumblebee in Eugene last summer.
Yeah, well, anecdotal exception. But we couldn’t let it go. So we did what we do, and dived in.
The national odometer took another spin last week: 700,000 covid deaths. Twelve Vietnams. Hell, more than the Civil War. Or all other American wars. Combined.
That’s where we’re at now. We’ll never know how many of these deaths were preventable, if we had a competent national government at the start of the pandemic, or for that matter, a fact-respectful population. We only know what we’ve lived through, and why, and what damn little we can do about it.
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