Billy Reed takes on UK and coal-mining

I missed this when the news first came out, but apparently the UK Board of Trustees has approved naming one of its basketball facilities the "Kentucky Coal Lodge." And Billy Reed has taken umbrage. Reed writes on his blog:

Buckle up your chin straps tight, folks, because the national media is going to have a ball with this. It’s hardly a secret that when it comes to basketball, our state’s values are grossly out of whack. Just about everybody either snickers at us – or pities us – because basketball is so obviously more important than education. Now, courtesy of the UK Board of Trustees, the critics and the comics now have this wonderful mother lode of new material with which to poke fun at the commonwealth and our warped values.

The rest of his post can be read here, but I would be skipping over it if I didn't also highlight this little nugget:

So you can’t blame the same industry which is trying to develop “clean coal” technology with trying to develop a “cleaner image” strategy. But, heavens, you can certainly blame the whores and other assorted knuckleheads of the UK Board of Trustees.