Category: Down & Out in Bumblefuck: The Rural News

It’s no big news to anyone that U.S. soldiers are disproportionately from rural areas, and more are from the Southeast than any other region of the country. What isn’t widely known is that 2010 had the highest suicide rate of returning veterans in U.S. history. This Friday I’ll hope to ask an Afghanistan veteran why…

Today I want to talk about natural gas drilling. Most people think of domestic, natural gas drilling as a positive step towards energy independence and ditching America’s foreign oil addiction. Most people would be wrong. I could write a book about how natural gas drilling is bad for people—from poisoning the ground with hexa-chromium 3,…