The silver lining

OK, so this is more of a tweet than a self respecting blog post, but a friend of mine had a great one liner today when we were talking about West Virginia's water woes, from the chemical leak in January to the latest coal slurry spill.

He said the only good thing about the water mess was that it made West Virginia's ruling class stop talking about the Obama administration's so-called "war on coal" for a month or so.

I think he might have been right.