Denton Drilling Protesters Do Me Proud

I’m from Denton, the crowning jewel on top of the Golden Triangle. I misspent many hours of my youth at Recycled on the Courthouse Square, inhaling secondhand smoke at Karma Cafe and the Tomato on Fry Street, and making out with my girlfriend at McKenna Park.

That’s the memory that came flooding back to me as I saw the photo at left, from this report about protesters at McKenna Park opposed to drilling that may be coming to the old Rayzor Ranch site. Two observations of how this photo makes me less than proud of my hometown:

1. You’re in a touchy-feely college town like Denton, and that’s all the people you could gather?

2. The best slogan you could think of was “Human Need Not Corporate Greed”? For shame. You’re stealing from children at an Iraq War march?