The lobbyists at the FACES of Coal campaign -- that's the Federation for Coal, Energy and Security -- seem to have found some actual faces for their campaign. In August, the blog Appalachian Voices tagged FACES for converting iStock images into an Astroturf campaign of people who really love coal. The "supporters" on the FACES website still look a little Hollywood, like "Marcus B., lifeguard." Out back on the FACES Facebook page, things seem a wee bit more real.

For really, really, real, try this post from Ken Ward Jr.'s Coal Tattoo, starting with a face of coal that you know has had real coal dust on it:

That's Michelle McKinney holding a portrait of her father, miner Benny Willingham, his wife and their grandson. Benny Willingham was one of the 25 miners killed in the Massey mine explosion yesterday in West Virginia. Ward Jr. forwards this report from a Charleston Gazette colleague on the scene:

May was going to be a big month for Benny Willingham.
On May 13 he was planning on working his last day in the Upper Big Branch Mine-South.

The next day he would have turned 65. And before the end of the month, he had a cruise scheduled that he'd already bought and paid for, said Michelle McKinney, Willingham's daughter.