Both Alex Knapp and David Carr use the Congo volcanic eruption to take amusing jabs at overregulation. However, it's distressing to see that while the media is now paying attention to this natural disaster in the Congo, that even now, there has been very little noting of the fact that this benighted country has been suffering from the largest and most unreported war on the planet for several years now. And it's not clear which disaster will ultimately ever be amenable to human intervention--magma buildup, or the equally dangerous accumulation of tribalism, corruption, and failed socialism (thank you, decolonialists!) that continues to ravage much of the African continent.

[Update on Tuesday afternoon]

David Carr informs me via email that I misread his post (to be honest I just gave it enough of a glance to see that it was about the Congo eruption, and satirical):

I just wanted to point out that it wasn't, in fact, a dig at overregulation but rather to send up the quixotic nature of the EU.

I know it's just a quibble but I really, really don't want the EU escaping even one pixel's worth of my contempt.

Well, let it never be said that I am in any way derelict in my sacred duty to avoid shielding the EU from contempt. (Parse that! I dare you!)