Let’s play a game called “Who really said this totally stupid crazy thing, Sheen or Bachmann?” Ready, get set, go!

Overnight there was an explosion at one unit of one of the two Fukushima nuclear stations that have been slowly failing since the earthquake and tsunami. Earlier reports had said that in one unit, the still hot fuel rods had been exposed by falling cooling water while problems continued at Unit 2 and three other units at a nuclear station about 15 km away. There have also been reports of releases of cesium with seriously high radioactivity being reported in the vicinity.

After a devastating 8.9 earthquake, damage to the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant led to some sort of explosion.

I’m a big fan of Edith Wharton, too, along with Jane Austen, as well as a number of other writers. I often listen at librivox.org while I knit, because then I feel as if I am reading and knitting at the same time.

The Gnu Song from episode 519 of The Muppet Show.

An activist blog like FDL is all about making a difference politically, and spends much of its times hammering politicians to lead on various important subjects.  But Matt Yglesias writes today that … people focus too much on polls about what “the people” think about “the issues.” What a lot of analysis misses is that [...]

The WikiLeaks suspect’s mistreatment amounts to torture. Either President Obama knows this or he should make it his business.

Politico explains to us how fortunate the Republicans are that the sober and fiscal-minded tea party grownups dragged them kicking and screaming away from irrational Obama hatred to a laser focus on budget cuts, which most Americans want because they stimulate the economy and create jobs. This savvy change in focus is why they won big last year and will win big again next year.

Wisconsin’s anti-public employee bill is signed, but the Secretary of State will take the maximum 10 days to publish the legislation, which means it won’t officially become law until March 25 at the earliest, and probably not until the following Monday, March 28. So there are a couple weeks of legal efforts to go here before we see if the bill will become law immediately.

In the aftermath of the devastating earthquakes and tsunami that struck Japan, we’ve been trying to piece together the status of the nuclear station at Fukushima. There are six units there, and units 1 and 2 appear to be at risk.