The rescue team that finally made it into the coal mine in West Virginia where an explosion took place last week turned into a recovery team, as the remaining miners trapped in the shaft were found dead, bringing the final toll to 29 killed.
With that, the media have apparently moved on to other things, such as the call to arms by the participants of the Southern Republican Leadership Conference and Tiger Woods's loss at the Masters. I've long since given up on the idea that anything can be done about preventing future Montcoal-type disaster, as the press corps never follow up on such stories, the Democratic party is too wimpy to press the issue, and the highest-rated political commentators are right-wingers.
But ask yourself - how many more workers have to be injured or die on the job before American labor finally gets a fair shake after forty years of being under siege?
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