What isn't getting spread around?

Well, I have figured out why there are 7,000 political writers/bloggers out there waxing daily on every imaginable issue or non-issue. If there isn’t an issue, they will manufacture one. All they have to do is hear about some event, pertinent or not, decide which side of it they want to come down on and start writing. Some political issues are good for six or eight articles or more. Some of them provide never-ending “fodder.”

I don’t seem to have that luxury—without entering the political arena, that is. I run out of themes for columns. Weekly I have to dig so deep to think of a subject that I sometimes end up trapped in a hole or, just as bad, wearing a subject out. However I don’t know why I should worry much about that given the examples that are out there in the media.

Oh-oh, you are thinking, Bertha is going to add her two-cent’s worth to the pile of material written about the Gulf oil spill, or the BP Oil Leak as it has come to be called. What little I have to say about that comes from a Uintah Basin perspective which may not have been addressed yet.

If that well had been drilled on land—say somewhere out south of Ouray—everyone would be hoping mightily for an oil leak. And if there were one, they would just drive up the trucks, load them up and drive them off again. They wouldn’t need a giant concrete bell, panty hose, or a series of pipes. Any amount of oil spilling on dry land really is a non-issue since without the addition of a large body of water to the equation, there isn’t a medium capable of spreading that oil around for miles and miles (as in south of Ouray).

The same thing cannot be said for all of the “information” and “opinion” circulating about it though. It gets a little oily in that medium, too.

Sometimes there is an issue that even I, agreeable Bertha, cannot resist commenting on. Another one of those issues would be one aspect of the Arizona Emigration Law fracas.

First, if Arizonans need to protect their borders and no one else is going to, they should be allowed to try some things, Second, I thought we were the United States, which should mean that we hang together when things are tough.

I think the best comeback on any level or in any arena that I have evcr heard is the one that the State of Arizona had for the city of Los Angeles in response to its boycott against them. It was just a pointed reminder in the form of a letter to the city council reminding them about the large quantities of electric power that their state provides to Los Angeles in the amount of 25% of their total usage. I also seem to remember that that city is particularly susceptible to rolling brownouts, grayouts or some color of outage.

In addition, if if I am not mistaken, a huge amount of water passes through Arizona on its way to somewhere in southern California as well.

Whether or not Arizona could in actuality turn off the lights, doesn’t matter a whole lot right now But it does matter that someone points out that the two states are a bit codependent and that Los Angeles might not want to be too quick to forget that.

Well, if by now you think that Bertha doesn’t know what she is talking about or she has fallen into a deep hole, you may be right; but you can be sure that she is in company with a whole lot of other writers/bloggers just like her.