Let's not forget. . .

. . . in the midst of all our fervor about the upcoming election that George W. Bush, lame duck though he may be, is still in charge of the U.S. until mid-January. As this article at the NY Times on his adminstration's attempts to revoke policies against mountain top removal (policies that are tenuous at best and took years to put into place--I should know; my great-grandfather and grandfather were coal miners in the Applachian Mountains, and they both firmly believed in the necessity of such policies), Bush is still hard at work screwing things up.