With the Yancy Street Gang

• Daisy Deadhead's Texas correspondent Yellowdog Granny's first-hand account of the explosion in West, Texas.  Empathic follow-up.
• Rolf Harris?  Rolf Harris?
• Republic of T:

  In West, Texas ammonium nitrate combined with conservative disdain for government, yielded devastating results. If sequestration continues, we can expect to see more of the same.

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  Conservatives disdain government, and when they’re in power they push for deregulation and less funding, and shrink these agencies until they’re ineffective. In other words, Republicans tell American’s government doesn’t work, when they really believe it shouldn’t work, and then they get elected and make damn sure that it can’t work.
  Anti-government conservatism turned West, Texas, into a kind of Randian paradise, and with a little ammonium nitrate, it helped turn the small town into a deadly inferno.

  (Article referenced.)
  
• Jurassicpork on his particular bit of fallout from the Boston Marathon bombings.