Waste to Fill

The Post says that the “mountaintop removal” business is “booming” again, and the practice of dumping mining debris into streambeds is “explicitly protected” by the federal government. The trick: Bush administration officials “reclassified the debris from objectionable ‘waste’ to legally acceptable ‘fill.'”

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A Load of Crap

According to a story on FindLaw, an Arkansas farmer spread 3 tons of manure in front of the home of a gay couple and along two city streets (the route of a gay pride parade). According to the farmer, Wesley Bono, he’s not guilty of any crime, as he was just exercising his Constitutional rights.

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