Right-wingers love to complain about anti-discrimination laws that protect women, minorities and homosexuals, and they also love to bitch and moan about how hard it is to fire teachers. So this makes perfect sense.

Have you heard anyone in America begging the president to reassure them that the future of our nuclear power industry is sound?

Me neither.

Now that three of the nation’s largest newspapers–the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and New York Times–have editorialized about the unacceptable conditions of the still-untried Bradley Manning, and a high-level State Department official was forced to resign over his remarks about Manning’s treatment, you can no longer plausibly deny that the issue hasn’t risen to the attention of the President of the United States. As such, he is now fully and directly responsible. To paraphrase Harry Truman, the buck has now stopped.

This is really the first attempt at the federal level to hold responsible the executives who made the decisions that crashed their own businesses and the greater economy. The Angelo Mozilo lawsuit by the SEC ended up going nowhere, and former Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis could face a lawsuit by the New York Attorney General’s office. But the FDIC’s action, which they are under a legal obligation to bring if they find wrongdoing at a bank they wind down, clearly takes this up a notch.

Japanese workers at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Generating Station spent all day Friday on three major initiatives to control the reactors there. First, douse the plants with water. Second, get power restored to the plant. Third, get better radiation measurements.

Claiming his government “takes great interest in protecting civilians,” Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa has just declared an “an immediate stop to all military operations.”

The announcement was made within the last half-hour, and shortly after statements by both French and British leaders that airstrikes on Libya would begin “within hours.” The airstrikes were authorized by last night’s vote in the United Nations Security Council.

• In Japan, it just keeps getting worse.
• NATO about to strike back?
• Krugman: the forgotten millions.
• Still not working on “the people’s priorities.“
• Please do not feed the troll.

Even if the Fukushima reactor is brought under control the destiny of the area and those who are there is almost certainly unpleasant.

Flogging Molly — Drunken Lullabies.

I like teachers. They are really smart. They’re cool and they are very patient while kids are learning. But Scottdemort really hates teachers. Why does Scottdemort hate teachers?