Back in the 1990, I wrote a column about a gold mining company trying to open a new mine near the Blackfoot River near Lincoln, Montana and used a parody image of the Earth Day symbol that said: "Earth First. We will strip-mine the other planets later."

Damned if the management of what was then Echo Bay Mines didn't ask for permission to use the logo for t-shirts for their workers.


It is the role of a newspaperman to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
-- Finley Peter Dunne