And Now for Something Really Unappetizing

"The stench is overwhelming," Waveland Mayor David Garcia said.

"They can blow up like a basketball and explode," he said.

"They" are dead nutria which drowned in the Louisiana gulf marshes during Hurricane Issac and are now washing up on the Mississippi gulf coast. Officials estimate there are at least 16,000.

I heard on Mississippi SuperTalk that county cleanup crews are ill-equipped for the job-- many have gotten ill trying to do their jobs. So we called in the Feds.

A federal contractor, U.S. Environmental Services, will dump the bodies in a landfill rated to take household garbage.

You know what nutria are, right? Large, semi-aquatic, herbivorous rodents that can tear up commercial catfish ponds.