A program made before I was born, and climate change was an issue even then … remember seeing this, and Our Mr. Sun, in elementary school.

Titanic actress Gloria Stuart has passed away at the age of 100. The Washington Post notes that Gloria, who was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, is the oldest actress to ever be nominated for an Academy Award – Gloria got an Oscar nod for her portrayal of “Old Rose” in 1997’s Titanic.

“When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed,” Gloria wrote in her memoir, I Just Kept Hoping. “I didn’t realize it would take so long.” [Just Jared]

While we’re in a festive mood today, let’s all gather around the digital hearth and enjoy Jan Brewer at… uh… um… er… last night’s Arizona governor debate.

[via Political Wire]

Above: In a new YouTube ad, Joe the Plumber endorses Missouri’s Chuck Purgason for Senate.

Below: Next time, check your references.

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The dynasty, of course, is the nascent Alaskan redneck family tree that is the Palin-Johnston-probably everyone else in Wasilla who screws each other- power brokerage that’s been warming the cockles of Tea Party hearts ever since John McCain unleashed them on the political scene like a pack of rabid dogs, or a swarm of killer fucking bees, or some devilish conflation of the two.

Anyway, Us reports that a source close to Bristol [my guess is Trig] reports that “Now that Mama Palin is out of the picture and Bristol is on her own in Anchorage, they spend more time together than most people think.” See, Sarah’s too busy with her breast jobs and book tours and the making of the money and going rogue to helicopter this. Apparently, those claims that she was able to simultaneously be a capable mother of five and be a hard working governor were both false, since Palin appears to have failed in both. Read more »

So we’ve got a major oil spill, a failed terrorist bombing, Leno bombing at the White House Correspondents Dinner, even Rent Boys terrorizing good Christians — what’s left?

Oh:

Powerful thunderstorms across the Southeast over the weekend drenched the region with heavy rains and left at least 24 people dead in Tennessee, Kentucky and Mississippi, including 10 people in the Nashville area. Though the rain tailed off late Sunday night here, runoff continued to pour into the Cumberland River, which crested at 51.8 feet on Monday evening.

By Tuesday morning, the water level had already fallen by a foot and was expected to fall by another 11 feet in the next 24 hours, according to Kris Mumford, a public information officer for the Nashville Metro Police Department.

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Gene Taylor (D-Mizzippi) would like folks to calm the fuck down about that black death approaching the shore:

What I want people to know is this isn’t Katrina. This is not Armageddon. I did this for the Coast Guard many years ago. Yeah, it’s bad. And it’s terrible that there’s a spill out there. But I would remind people that the oil is twenty miles from any marsh… That chocolate-milk looking spill starts breaking up in smaller pieces… It is tending to break up naturally.

Nice try, Gene, but BP is only paying those five-grand hush-money checks to Alabama right now.

Rep. Taylor Downplays Gulf Oil Disaster By Comparing It To Spilt ‘Chocolate Milk’ [ThinkProgress]

AG: BP Trying To Get Alabamians To Give Up Right To Sue Over Spill [TPM]