An Earth-Shattering Kaboom

Mt. St. Helens erupted twenty-nine years ago. Here's a quick overview video, and a slightly better one showing just the famous photographs by Gary Rosenquist.

So... given of the potential of natural circumstances like these, is there any place you'd either avoid traveling to, or would rather travel to...?

Go Jesse

A diary at dKos has some seriously, grimly satisfying video of Jesse Ventura on The View, absolutely pwning Elisabeth Hasselback on the subject of torture. Less than four minutes, really really worth it.