You know it’s bad when the Drill Baby herself feels compelled to extend condolences.

But it’s even worse than you think:

The state departments of Health and Hospitals and Environmental Quality said the strong odor blanketing much of coastal Louisiana and the metro New Orleans area is “possibly” the result of the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Then again, Mary Landrieu isn’t letting the stench stop her:

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Quick! Somebody sacrifice a virgin! If the radar photo above is any indication, Europeans have clearly pissed off Mother Earth with their excesses. After the jump, heartbreaking stories of “tragedy” from some of the world’s most privileged people.
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“Rumor has it that Aaron Sorkin is the leading candidate to snag the film rights to The Politician, the memoir written by John Edwards’s former aide Andrew Young.” [New York, via Political Wire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajT9IgL7SG8

Poor Scott Ashjian. All he wanted to do was challenge Harry Reid as the “Tea Party of Nevada” candidate. But the teabaggers disowned him — technically, claimed they never owned him in the first place — and now the Clark County district attorney’s office wants him to own up:

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If we undertand the visuals correctly, Carly Fiorina thinks California Republicans are a bunch of sheep. Which sounds about right to us.

[via TPM]

Oh, dear. We don’t really have a take on tonight’s special election in Massachusetts, except that either it will provide Demrats an excuse for not doing what they should have done months ago, or it will provide Demrats an excuse to keep dragging their feet until another excuse turns up.

So we launch our Open Thread/Existential Dilemma in utter confusion: Will it mean anything either way? Is it even worth a beer? Should we have run with Frisky Dingo instead?

And if Scott Brown wins, as expected: How long can we get away with calling him Senator Happy Trail?

In the wake of such crowd-pleasers as live-action versions of The Flintstones, Scooby-Doo and Howard the Duck, Robert Zemeckis will be shitting on what’s left of your childhood with a motion-capture remake of Yellow Submarine for Disney. Actors will be donning ping-pong-laden bodysuits for the film, which could be almost as trippy as a Peter Max animation, but probably not. Especially without drugs.

As news of the film breaks, psychologists are already lining up to offer expensive withdrawal programs for depressed filmgoers unable to cope with a reality that doesn’t include floating talking hands.

Robert Zemeckis finds Beatles for ‘Yellow Submarine’ [Hollywood Reporter]