… And by the Way, a Tsunami May Hit D.C. by Timothy Noah I blogged below the original reports about the tsunami risk. Here is a column on Washington’s vulnerability. “The Geology article doesn’t actually

address the possibility that Strom Thurmond, or some other

slow-moving senator, might drown in the basement cafeteria

of the Hart building, but let’s face it: The Capitol stands not

too far from the banks of the Potomac River, as do the swank

salons of Georgetown, the John F. Kennedy Center for the

Performing Arts, the Republican political consulting firms that

line the streets of Old Town Alexandria, and the airport

recently renamed Reagan National.” Because the risk of the undersea landslide that could trigger the tidal wave may be related to global climate change, it would serve Trent Lott right if he drowned in the Washington subway, Noah notes.