Grim fallout from Japan's nuclear crisis. Bodies of hundreds of disaster victims found near the increasingly troubled Fukushima Daiichi plant remain uncollected amid fears they might contaminate mourners with intense radiation.

Meanwhile, in a losing battle, "suicide squads" of nuclear workers reap hefty paychecks, but get by with little food or sleep, all while facing the possibility of death.

No troops! So how about the CIA...? American spies have landed in Libya to help direct allied airstrikes and also reach out to rebel operatives, presumably to check them out before we covertly funnel them weapons. Because that always goes well. In one big blow to Moammar Gaddafi's regime, a bigshot defector is apparently singing for the West.

Going the way of Wisconsin, Ohio's legislature, after months of acrimony, approves an anti-labor law of its own. They might beat America's Dairlyand, though. A judge confirms the Wisconsin law is on hold while a legal challenge gets sorted out.

While her miraculous recovery continues, Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords has become the subject of rampant (if wishful) speculation that she might be well enough to run for—and seize for the Democrats—an open U.S. Senate seat next fall.

Who knew "transit criminology" was an emerging field? After years of sliding downward, crime on MAX trains has ticked upward. When's the last time you saw a fare inspector?

Bedbugs are so 2010. Here's your next insect epidemic: STINK BUGS! (AND THEIR ROTTING GARBAGE AROMAS!)

I'm sympathetic, but hardly surprised.

Governators are forever. Stan Lee is going to make a Batman-ish cartoon show about Arnold Schwarzenegger: politician by day, superhero at night. Maybe he could fix this, since, you know, it's kind of his fault.

He wasn't always this punny in press conferences. Just sometimes.