Don Blankenship has a new company. It is a coal company.

When I read this a short while ago, I was taken a little bit aback. See, it just seems to me that if you've run a business where your reputation as a polluter is notorious, where your employees have died from preventable incidents due to disregard for safety practices--and where a record settlement was just made regarding a horrific accident at your old company, maybe you should think about doing something that isn't operating coal mines.  Maybe your time is better served portioning out alms to widows and orphans, or setting up an endowment for respiratory disorders research, or maybe just staying retired. I don't know why folks do anything, sometimes. It just seems to me that if massive environmental disasters and mangled bodies were left in one's wake, why, one might just as well not go back into a business one did so poorly at--

Profitably.  But poorly, in any moral sense of the word.