Brace yourself, Oklahoma: The ingredients for a classic plains tornado outbreak are in place. (Meanwhile… brace yourself, bedding plants for a classic plains frost outbreak.)
Update: It’s begun.

h/t

A photo gallery of the Assiniboine River flood at Brandon, MB. Related – Province might not let river spill out. Wishing you all the best of luck, folks.

Women, minorities hardest hit.

h/t Prof. Bainbridge

Kind of cool.

The old man still has a thing or two to teach the Gaga Generation: Mick Jagger.
Update: As the original Youtube video was taken down, here’s a different link for now.

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h/t Russell S.

WSJ has the hot spots.

Please.

… if you are not to busy to make a poster for me.
h/t KevinB

In the “Never Thought I’d Ever See This” category, here’s your Saturday afternoon entertainment. Just think, at the next meeting of world powers, Putin + Harper + ??? + ??? = The New Beatles!

h/t Rob Z.

Vs a pink rifle.

Which means I did better on the Pew Political IQ Score “than 98% of the general public”.
Yikes.

Update! Amber alert rescinded!

A disturbing case of racial profiling.

Via Drudge