If you’re stuck at the office (or in class) without a TV, you can watch live Japan tsunami coverage here.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) tells TPM: My former press secretary absolutely positively did not impersonate me to Howard Kurtz.
Susan Crabtree has the latest on the Byzantine inner workings of the House Ethics Committee — and how one of the committee’s attorneys who had been suspended for still-undisclosed reasons has landed a new gig on the GOP staff of the House Natural Resources Committee.
One of the strongest signals yet from the Obama administration about the possibility of a government shutdown: A shutdown may be the only way to bring House Republicans back down to earth.
New Hampshire is having a great time with its big new crop of Republican state legislators. Rep. Martin Harty is refusing to apologize for saying that “all the defective people, the drug addicts, mentally ill, the retarded” should be sent to Siberia to die.
Certainly not catastrophic but even on the other side of the Pacific Ocean in California today’s Tsunami is causing major damage.

