Peg Duthie: “Last week my newsfeed included tributes to astronaut Edgar Mitchell and a report on the Virginia Tech scientists who have been testing the water in Flint and whose faculty adviser has a history of battling authorities dismissive of lead contamination. Mitchell’s statement about wanting to drag politicians into space (the better to order the s.o.b.s to behold the earth) is the kind of sentiment I can simultaneously admire and disagree with: these days, it seems like such a tall order to get most politicians to look at anything other than their own self-interests. And then I read about Flint residents hugging Tech researchers and tears were in my eyes.” (website)
