
Welcome to Monday. The dove went out of the ark and found dry land... well, in some places, anyway. The floodwaters continue to flow south, and even as each levee breach takes the pressure off the overall force, it leaves more destroyed lives and towns in its wake.
Gary Tuchman reports from Grafton, Illinois, a town where there are no levees, so the flood came in gently enough for people to pack before they ran...
...while David Mattingly was in Gulfport, Illinois, a town where our friends at FEMA assured the residents that the levees meant they needed no flood insurance. Over the weekend, Drew Griffin did a piece about the levees that ended with this:
Mark Twain, who lived along this river, once said, "Ten thousand river commissions with the minds of the word at their back cannot tame that lawless stream." Why, say critics of our current efforts, do we think our levees can do any better?

Today's political kerfuffle is another "advisor puts foot in mouth" one. Charlie Black has been controversial before, but today he shocked even John McCain.
Dana Bash got the scoop (again!) and got the candidate's deer-in-the-headlights look on camera. Joe Klein and David Gergen pile on to point out the flaw in the stupidity.
First clip: it's gloating time!
It's never enough, Anderson.
Am I the only one tired of the polling? As if ALL women or ALL blacks or ALL gays or ALL college-educated Americans think and vote the same way. Please. Every one of us has different issues that matter to us.

Candy Crowley reports from DC on a phone call between -- oh, y'all fell asleep, didn't you? Yeah, it's gotten that bad. I caught myself admiring her outfit rather than listening to what she was saying. Sorry, Candy. Seriously, everyone on the political trail (candidates definitely included!) please take a break.
Don Imus. *sigh* Did we fall into Groundhog Day? Roland Martin gets the Best Line of the Night Award: "Because he's an idiot!" (And he wasn't even talking about Imus!)
Michael Medved also was on, he's given up on Imus, too. Al Sharpton will decide tomorrow, after he takes a poll, presumably. *yawn*
The teen pregnancy pact: fact or fiction? The mayor's "there was no blood oath" is far from convincing. Hello, there is an entire generation who has no idea what it means to become blood brothers/sisters. Duh.
Randi Kaye recapped her original report, which has been airing all weekend. Seriously... All. Weekend.
Discussion was with Cecile Richards, the President of Planned Parenthood, and Tony Perkins, of whom I mentioned during the gay-marriage debate was making himself irrelevant. Well, Tony, it's time to introduce yourself to some teenagers and then figure out a way to actually help with an actual problem.
And by the way, we don't stop teenagers from smoking by wagging our fingers in their face and intoning "Just Say No." We show them what smoking does to their lungs. We scare the bejeebers out of them. NBC's new "Baby Borrowers" reality show will do more to lower pregnancy rates than all the lectures ever made! Have you seen the promos for it? *shudder*
Second clip: Matthew McConoughey, Mario Lopez, Beat360. Blimey!
Third/final clip: UFOs in the UK!
Happy Tuesday!
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