What would you do if your home, place of employment and entire community were wiped off the face of the earth by a tornado? Recovery in Eastern Kentucky will take a long time and only the Red Cross remains on the ground supporting the people who most need it. [Click Here To Give]

Dang. Turns out Ronnie Ellis is in the middle of some health stuff. Keep him in your thoughts! He’s a Kentucky original. [Support Ronnie Ellis]

Binack Nobama called John Calipari to congratulate him for a sports thing. The mouth-breathers will go crazy over that. [H-L]

Aw, the House GOP is feeling so lonely for its old boyfriend Earmarks that it is going around Congress quietly surveying friends to see how mad everyone would be if it got back together with Earmarks. [Wonkette]

Reeeeechie Farmer, proof that someone shouldn’t be elected because they played basketball, reaped 55,000 hotel rewards points after an agriculture convention. He went out of his way – and had his staff assist – to make sure he received the rewards points. How wonderful. [C-J/AKN]

Dear Republicans: Quit pretending that the Paul Ryan “budget” is better than a field of cow poop. Not many Americans think it’s the equivalent of a turd blossom, according to the latest polling data. [Daily Kos]

Who wants to bet Louisville media will pay more attention to the tornado damage in Dallas, Texas than they have the disaster that hit Eastern Kentucky? [HuffPo]

New rules look set to speed the move from coal to natural gas. So you know King Coal is going to go crazy during this year’s presidential election. [The Economist]

Stories like this one – involving an alleged meth head who died during a drug raid – lead meemaw and poppop to believe there’s some epidemic because you can still buy Claritin D without a doctor’s prescription. It’s called fear-mongering. [WKYT]

Rockcastle County voted to reject alcohol sales yesterday. It’s almost as if the people in that county don’t believe people will just drive 15 minutes to buy booze in another county? Way to screw yourself out of a mountain of tax revenue, Rockcastle County. [H-L]

Here’s how we think of Mittens Romney: mormon cultist, sister wives, car elevator in a fancy house, massive flip-flopping that his staff admits, ROMNEYCARE. It’s going to be fun talking about all of that in November. [White Salamander Fun Times]

Remember a year or two ago when we told you about the horsey lady at the University of Louisville thieving money? Now UofL is on a mission to try to recover the $460,000 she admits to stealing. They’ll never get it. Just like they never got all the cash back from Robert Felner. [C-J/AKN]

The Commonwealth of Kentucky can be thankful for at least two other states for making it seem somewhat intelligent. Pennsylvania is kicking tons of kids off the Medicaid rolls and the mouth-breathing governor or Tennessee is going to sign a bill allowing teachers to tell students that evolution is the devil’s work or something. [HuffPo & More HuffPo]