OK, this is more of a tweet than a blog post...

...but it kind of sums up the way things look to me tonight. When I got in from a long day in which the home team took some hits, I composed the following once sentence historico-political analysis of my beloved state:

West Virginia may be a failed state, but it is a highly successful corporate colony.

What I didn't add in the tweet is that nowadays, all the world knows that to be the case. Except maybe some people here.