In Japan: In response to yesterday’s “assumed meltdowns” at power plants in northeast Japan, people are being evacuated—so far, about 180,000 outside of the Daiichi plant and 30,000 within six miles of the Fukushima Daiina nuclear facility. Rescue efforts continue, with about 200,000 people living in temporary shelters, and 9,500 people still unaccounted for in the Myagi Prefecture town of Minamisanriku alone. The PM is calling the disaster “Japan’s worst crisis since World War II.”

In Libya: Gaddafi’s targeted attacks on anyone seeking to broadcast the rebellion continued with yesterday’s fatal shooting of an Al-Jazeera cameraman in Benghazi.

In the Bronx: Fourteen people were killed and ten were injured yesterday when their tour bus slid onto its side and a light pole “sheared off the top of the bus.”

In Concord, New Hampshire: Where Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann thinks the Revolutionary War began (Concord and Lexington, Massachusetts beg to differ), according to a statement she made yesterday, which Politico puts at no. 3 in embarrassingly wrong claims she has made about history and politics in recent months. (Bachmann 2012!)

In a post-1998 world: Two top Engadget editors have fled AOL.

In Olympia: Budget shortfall might be worse than we thought.

In the Greenwood Space Travel Supply Company and environs: Children organize protest for Pluto’s right to planethood.

In a city of ancient myth: Scientists think they might have discovered what’s left of the lost city of Atlantis—in Spain, just north of Cadiz.

And finally, in honor of Congresswoman Bachmann, here is a helpful video about history for anyone who wants to run for president without looking silly.

10 replies on “Morning News”

  1. Not a single report of looting or rape from Japan? Don’t they know that a 50″ flatscreen TV land their neighbor’s daughter are essential items in a disaster?

  2. “In the Bronx: Fourteen people were been killed” Dag nabit, that there sum bad grammar, Jedidiah.

    It’s a shame fourteen people have been killed.

  4. My brother and I broached the subject of us offering temporary accommodation to him and his family should his government get around to evacuating its citizens.

  5. Bachmann would be on death row with Shawna Forde for coplotting the murders of a father and his 9-year-old daughter if she hadn’t been elected.

    But check this the fuck out! The wife of one of the Wisconsin Republican senators is going to sign the recall petition against him. Why? Perhaps this:

    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.

    http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/13/wi…

    Now that is morning news we could get if you cheap bastards would pay your poor interns instead of ariannahuffing them!

  7. I guess Bachmann’s statement on the House floor in 2009 that CO² makes up “three percent of the atmosphere” (the correct figure is 0.04%, so she was off by two orders of magnitude) doesn’t even rate in the top three. She would flunk junior high school science, math and civics.

  8. Budget Shortfall in Olympia …

    Obviously we need to do two things:

    1. cancel all tax exemptions for corporations for the duration of the emergency and only reinstitute them with a 2/3 vote of the Citizens; and

    2. cancel the Deeply Drowning Tunnel. Couldn’t afford it before – definitely can’t afford it now. Period.

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