I heard on the radio some time this evening (maybe PBS) that Jodie Richards is leaving for St. Louis to find out if Mr. Peabody actually plans to steal all of Kentucky just like he stole Muhlenberg County (at least according to John Prine). The announcer said that Jodie had reserved seats on the plane (or Conestoga wagon or whatever) for Fletcher and Williams despite the fact that neither had accepted his invitation to make the scene with him.
Apparently, Jodie means to find out if the Peabody gang is serious about blasting away all the mountains in the East and digging up all the landfills in the West so that he can have a reason to call or not call his fellow House mischief-makers back for some deal-making if possible or some Beshear-campaigning if not. Of course, he'll find out that the Peabody earth-killers can't give him an answer because he can't offer them a proposition, a circumstance he made possible by taking his black diamonds and going home.
Of course, Jodie could strike a deal, but that sort of reminds of the time that a former Danville mayor instructed the city engineer to draw up the proper papers some years ago and proceeded to buy a farm in the name of the city. The deal never came off, of course, because the mayor didn't have the authority to do that. The mayor created a weird situation, but Jodie would be matching him for…lunacy…if he made any concrete overtures to Peabody, although that isn't likely to happen, since flatlanders have grave concerns about the places where they don't live.
Anyhow, revenue and jobs and job-benefits accruing to the state and its people from the mining and gasification of coal are small potatoes when compared to the gazillions of greenbacks to be gained from the gambling when Beshear and his bevy of croupiers and card-sharks constitutionalize the casinos of commonwealth conservation. Stay tuned…this is better entertainment than a "Leaky" Leahy-run congressional hearing (wackiness and mouth-frothing senate-slanders) and is especially appreciated in a long, hot summer.
And so it goes.
Jim Clark
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