Joe Manchin Is a Damned Fool

Or a greedy teenager, take your pick

Flames, William Warby, Flickr

Just like there are only a few reasons people kill each other — rage, to conceal a crime, profit, war and so forth — there are only a limited number of possible explanations for Senator Joe Manchin’s (D-Coal) behavior this past year, and none of them are good. Unless you are totally, batshit or insane, you don’t kill another human being to make it rain…