Keep The Faith, Mike

Unlike our Bubba or Sam (he's running - oh my!) I've never put on the blogging armour to do much battle over global warming. Much like the "woo" put out by the anti-vaccine crowd (the refutation of which is the mighty and insolent Orac's area of expertise - and he does it so well there really little need for the rest of us to chime in), I've always thought the notion was more-or-less hooey. The so-called "science" behind it has been steeped in greed (not to mention power-mongering ignorance) . . . and the methods/conclusions (forgive me), feckless.

Until fairly recently, that opinion would've made me a "wack-job" in the eyes of the more progressive and enlightened among us. Now, notsomuch.

The only reason I'm saying this now is because Mike Baron, Greensboro's one-and-only water conservation manager (and, as locals know, original victim of Fec-the-cyberstalker), is still hammering out his case for inyourface governmental fraud over at his (Randleman) "Dam Scam" blog.

It is simply amazing to me the stories under their collective stuck-up noses that our local journalists just dismiss/ignore. Commenting on Mike's post, Ed Cone's uber-arrogant "Show me the falsified documents", line was priceless (almost as priceless as the "invitation" he extended to me on his blog . . . to interview me for a blogging "lament" in the N&R . . . as opposed to picking up the phone or dropping an e-mail with an offer to tell the newspaper-reading locals the story of the medico-legal cluster-screw that brought me to the blogosphere in the first place).

GET OFF YOUR BUTT, MAN! Do something besides sit in the rarefied air behind that deep blue keyboard of yours . . . expecting the stories to just walk right up to you and sit in your lap.

Investigative journalism has just totally given way to spoon-fed soundbites supplied by special interests. If it were not so maddening, it would be pathetic.

Mike's story is compelling - and worthy of just as much of the sympathy & attention afforded former GSO police Chief, David Wray. I would encourage readers/citizens to take a look.

And I would encourage Mike to keep the faith. He did not deserve what the City of Greensboro dished out.

And he is not alone.