Diamond, Oregon sat up straight and paid attention.
Maybe it was too late.
But a few stubborn voices convinced the rest there was still time. The lobbyists for the oil companies could still be neutered.
The politicians who took their contributions could still be stripped of all the money they plowed into pornographic TV ads on the local news.
If Hollywood could be cajoled into a rewrite of its own script, so could the oil company lobbyists.
Even the pessimists in Diamond, Oregon knew it.
