Big day in a lot of states today, with primaries for US Senate taking place in Arkansas, Kentucky, Oregon, and Pennsylvania. This could be the end of Arlen Specter’s political career, and it’s looking pretty good that DINO Blanche Lincoln will be forced into a June runoff down in Arkansas. In Kentucky, teabagger darling Rand Paul looks like he’ll kick the ass of Mitch McConnell’s hand picked candidate. Here, there are votes on school district budgets going on. Could be bad news for school districts. People are pretty pissed at, well, just about everything, and about the only things they actually get to vote on are their school district budgets, so they tend to take it out them.

It was 30 years ago today that Mount St. Helens blew up. I hope Harry Truman’s OK.

Speaking of disasters, tar balls are starting to wash up on shore in the Florida Keys, though the Coast Guard isn’t saying if they’re coming from the underwater oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico. Probably just a coincidence.

A Tokio Hotel guitarist OD’d on Viagara, or so he claims (not OD’d as in killed himself, I guess). Hs story is that somebody offered him one, and he replied that he didn’t need that sorta thing, but the guy replied “you should take it anyway,” so he took a fistful of them, and they made him feel bad. My first thought was, when did we start spelling Tokyo with an ‘i’ and I didn’t realize the hotels over there had in-house guitar players. As for a 20-yr old being stupid enough to take a fistful of Viagara because somebody told him, “dude, you gotta try these,” well, that doesn’t surprise me one bit.

The FIFA World Cup begins in about three weeks. This year, it’s in South Africa. Great place for a vacation, with a murder rate of about .5 murders per 1,000 people (or roughly 100 times greater then here in the US of A). Don’t worry, Colombia; you’re still #1.

You may have heard that Oily Taints and Michele Bachmann teamed up at a teabagger event in California yesterday. One headline I read yesterday, said “How Bachmann and Taitz Came Together Without the Universe Exploding” or something like that. Which was kinda dumb. Everybody knows that it’s only a problem is matter and anti-matter are brought together, and since neither Taints nor Bachmann matter, ther universe is safe. Taints and Bachmann in a roof full of teabaggers, though. Oy. That’s a whole lotta crazy in one place.

Oh well, looks like it’s about that time again.