THAR SHE BLOWS!

The overnight eruption of Alaska’s 10,000-foot Redoubt volcano (as of this writing, a series of five explosive events launching ash and debris 50,000 feet into the sky and depositing a light covering of ash on communities more than 100 miles away) is the perfect coda to last month’s anti-science rant by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal in which he mocked volcano monitoring funding in the Obama stimulus plan.