MOUNT MERAPI in Indonesia continues to rumble. According to German geologists, this is serious: they estimate that there "three times more magma [under Mount Merapi] than what was ejected by the Indonesian volcano Tambora in 1815 – the biggest eruption in the last 10,000 years".
Also: American takes out a suspected Palestinian terrorist in Gaza; Beck's new book (yeah, right); and Olbermann suspended indefinitely.