Just last month, the governor of Louisiana went on television and was all, “Now this $140 million ‘volcano monitoring’ deal is such a dumb liberal plot by ACORN, amiright?” And now Alaska’s Mount Redoubt has erupted, out of spite. Why does God/Vulcan/Sarah Palin want Bobby Jindal to look like such an asshole? [BBC News]

Employees of the National Science Foundation are the luckiest people alive, because apparently they make buckets of money to look at porn all day, i.e., “promote the progress of science.” Or so says Chuck Grassley, an Iowa senator obsessed with two things: government waste and toilet seats. Apparently for a while there NSF employees spent their days happily downloading pornography to government servers, until eventually some buzzkills got wise and installed filtering software of some sort. Grassley wants to make sure these terrible pornographers’ days of looking at porn instead of promoting science are behind them before they get more bailout money. Grassley is a terrible prude. [Politico]