Middle East Meltdown

Nick Anderson/Houston Chronicle
Eli Rosenberg 179 Views Mar 19, 2011

Upon inspection, it appears that humor may have taken the week off. Nick Anderson grimly compares the political crisis in the Middle East to the fallout in Japan in the wake of some tremendous national disasters.

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