News talk 2014-01-24: Fracking film banned

Fracking should be an environmentalists’ dream come true. It’s far less destructive and dangerous than conventional methods of oil extraction.

But too many artistic people are caught up in the emotion of environmentalism and see things religiously, rather than logically. Too bad. If you were to compare the anti-communist “blacklist” era of Hollywood to today’s de facto blacklisting of many non-liberals, you might conclude that the present condition is worse. — MC