That's the punch line, actually.
So, anyway, I was watching the news.
The story of the moment was the continuing saga of the ill-fated Virginia miners.
The reporter was interviewing a miner that had fortuitously decided to play hooky on the day the rest of his co-workers were asphyxiated/immolated/buried alive, and his attitude was remarkably insouciant, and even a little hostile. After a series of grunted responses to questions about his fallen compatriots, he offered this wondrous gem of insightfulness: “Can’t live without coal. What am I gonna do? Put a darn windmill on my lawn?” Sneer sneer sneer. Hiss hiss hiss.
At the risk of sounding terribly insensitive…
Ummmmmmmmm, yes?
I don’t have the facts and figures to back up this assertion, but I feel like the mortality rate for building windmills is significantly lower than mining for coal. In fact, you can even tilt at them in relative safety. But again, I am only hazarding a guess. No one has ever died in a tragic windmill explosion.
I mean, I suppose if you were really skinny there might be some danger of blowing away...
