Man, suddenly I've got a hankerin' for some Skittles

The celebration of Holi in India via here.

Fez Tip Watertiger.

He's totally about to dump America

And start dry-humping another country.

I can just see him advising FDR

There's no story in which Mitch McConnell fails to choose the thing that is most inappropriate.

“My thought about it is, we ought not to make American and domestic policy based upon an event that happened in Japan,” Mr. McConnell said.

In addition, I'm trying to figure out whether that phrasing indicates that Mitch McConnell thinks "domestic policy" is un-American?

John Galt would, so I guess the answer is yes.

Iowa -- Behold your future

It's the Handmaid's Tale:

Last month, after an upsetting phone conversation with her estranged husband, Ms. Taylor became light-headed and fell down a flight of stairs in her home. Paramedics rushed to the scene and ultimately declared her healthy. However, since she was pregnant with her third child at the time, Taylor thought it would be best to be seen at the local ER to make sure her fetus was unharmed.

That's when things got really bad and really crazy. Alone, distraught, and frightened, Taylor confided in the nurse treating her that she hadn't always been sure she'd wanted this baby, now that she was single and unemployed. She'd considered both adoption and abortion before ultimately deciding to keep the child. The nurse then summoned a doctor, who questioned her further about her thoughts on ending the pregnancy. Next thing Taylor knew, she was being arrested for attempted feticide. Apparently the nurse and doctor thought that Taylor threw herself down the stairs on purpose.

Um, what?

Behold your Republican...yet somehow still proclaimed Galtian future!

I'm not saying

That Glenn Beck enjoys fisting homeless minors while strung out on crank; I'm not saying he doesn't either.

It would be wrong to speculate, it would be wrong not to.

So the last hope is...

They can save the power plant by hooking it up to another power plant?

Can't help but wonder

The kind of coverage we're getting on NBC and/or MSNBC given that their parent corporation GE makes a shitload on nuclear energy. It isn't exactly like we've gotten quality military coverage from the subsidiary of a major contractor with the DOD.

Also makes you wonder why they seem to have a paucity of experts on, given that the parent corporation is thick with 'em.

Oh, somehow they've had this fucknut on...telling us everything is A-OK, especially your GE stock.

It just gets worse

Just how many "units" are there at this nuclear plant? Everyday seems to bring a new round of fail. Now there's been a fire at the No. 4 reactor. Here's a great conversation thread which includes an expert on such matters (which will obviously be better than CNN's use of a security guy and Bill Nye -- who while he's awesome is NOT truly an expert on the particulars of this matter).

And everyone has been evacuated withing a 20km radius.

The reaction in America, of course, as stated by Atrios yesterday, will likely to be a push to build reactors in everyone's back yard.

Anyone with any concern about this matter, however, remember. First, you are by definition not a "serious person" by being concerned so let our "serious" people figure it out.

We'll call it the David Broder Nuclear Power Policy.

It is pretty clear that Japan has an "ambivalence-hate" relationship with nuclear power

No location has ever had more tragedy built around it, such paranoia -- well earned about it, and yet so much reliance upon it.

This is a great essay on the subject.

No Matter How Bad Things Get

We can still be grateful for one thing, and that's that John McCain is not and never will be president.

Grand Old Pricks

And hypocrites:

Protesters who marched at the home of Wisconsin state senator Randy Hopper (R-Fond du Lac) were met with something of a surprise on Saturday. Mrs. Hopper appeared at the door and informed them that Sen. Hopper was no longer in residence at this address, but now lives in Madison, WI with his 25-year-old mistress.

Nothing quite like

Listening to a report from NBC's Keith Morrison who, in describing the Japanese tsunami, manages to make the Earth sound like a child molester.

Somebody better find out

From Pat Robertson what Japan has done lately to piss God off. I mean they don't recognize gay marriage there so what's the deal?

Hundreds flee in Japan after Shinmoedake volcano begins spewing ash, boulders

Hey, Cheesecake!!!

A list of foods rich in iodine possibly brought to you by the brilliant minds behind "let's put some nuclear reactors right on the seashore of a place famous for its tsunamis". This may create a radioactive cloud that travels over the U.S. thereby requiring heavy doses of it.

* Arame * Cheddar cheese * Cheese cake
* Cod * Condensed milk * Dulse
* Eggs * Fish oils * Fresh fish
* Haddock * Hijike * Iodized salt
* Jaffa cakes * Kelp * Kombu
* Malt bread * Mayonnaise * Naan Bread
* Nori * Sea foods * Sea kelp
* Sea salt * Seaweed * Trifle
* Wakame * Yorkshire pudding

Japan

Doctors Without Borders does good work.

Other organizations to which you typically direct help? Put links in comments.

Larry Kudlow

Veterinarian:



It is a role that suits him like a couple good lines of blow.

Wait a minute?

Is this a trick question?

It is the Koch Brothers right?

Piñata

Bill Maher beats one with a stick.

Not sure who Dana Loesch is, but she's dumb.

Whoever thought

Building nuclear plants on the sea coast in the area where Japan has had well-known historical Tsunamis (which is really any area on the east coast of Japan) before must be in the Japanese equivalent of the Tea Party.

Too dumb to be called a moron

Who EVER thought Lexington & Concord (of "Shot hear 'round the World" fame) are in New Hampshire?

Only Michelle Bachman.