Tom Tomorrow does a quick round-up of all the crazy that's flying around all crazy-like out there in crazytown lately…

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Yes, it's true, Todd Palin dropped out of the Iron Dog snowmobile race yesterday. Another case of the Random Palin Quits? Nope, for once a Palin had a perfectly legit reason for quitting: Todd's racing partner Scott Davis crashed on a bad trail, injuring his back (he'll be okay, thank goodness).

See, this year's Iron Dog racers are up against some extra-tough conditions…

At one of the warmest Iron Dog starts in race history, drivers unzipped jacket vents and got ready for a spring-like day on the trail Sunday. "It's going to be a warm, wet ride," said Louis Miller III, patriarch of the father-son team from Anchorage.

Iron Dog officials said an icy course is in store for racers. Snow cover is adequate but not ideal, said Iron Dog board president Marianne Beckham.

Insufficient snow cover means patches of exposed dirt and ice, which makes racing treacherous even for experienced drivers like Palin and Davis…

Wet snow carved up by rain, heat and nearly 100 snowmachines left the trail deeply rutted and full of bumps. Davis and Palin started 22nd among the 29 teams on Sunday, putting them behind most of the pro class racers as well as the 28 trail class riders who started on Friday.

"It was as bad as I've ever seen it," said Davis, who ran his first Iron Dog in 1984. "It's pretty torn up. A lot of machines went over it. It's going to be one of those survival years."

Let me get this straight: unusually warm weather and a lack of snow helped create dangerous trail conditions that scratched Team Palin-Davis from the 2010 Iron Dog race. Is that about right?

Your move, Inhofe family.

Donald Trump — obviously concerned that his reputation remains in too pristine standing after several years of self-mocking reality television and Oreo commercials — has decided that the time has come for him to wade into the Climate Change debate…

"With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels up and down the coast, the Nobel committee should take the Nobel Prize back from Al Gore," the tycoon told members of his Trump National Golf Club in Westchester in a recent speech.

I had a hard time choosing between these three punchlines, so I leave it to you to choose your own.

* I'm not sure what's done more to make this guy a modern icon of America: his outspokenness or his unthinkiness.

* That Donald Trump is embracing Climate Change denialism should come as a surprise to no one. He's been an outspoken advocate of Hairline Change denialism since forever.

* Say what you will about this guy's views on environmentalism, but his ideas for combating deforestation are ingenious. All we need now is a tractor big enough to perform the comb-over.

Nobody — nobody! — does a better job at parodying Glenn Beck absurdly gleeful disdain for knowledge than the big man himself!

There are some things you just cannot improve upon…

You know, my eleven-year-old nephew was having very similar confusions about this until I spent five minutes explaining the basics of how meteorology works. So, I can totally get where Beck is coming from.

Look at this shit! Here's admitted liberal academic Rachel Maddow talking to Bill Nye the Blasphemy Science Guy in an effort to prove away all the white fluffy proof of Global Warming's nonexistence that fell from the sky yesterday.

How pathetic…

I don't know about you, but I turned this off after the Sean Hannity clip. Whatever it was he was saying, that's good enough for me.

And it seems like Maddow's been on a roll of useless segments lately. After the jump, there's a clip from the other night about the GOP's Love-Hate-Love relationship with bipartisanshipiness that you should totally not bother watching…

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Awww, look at this. Sen. James Inhofe's son-in-law and grandchildren took advantage of the DC snowstorm to go outside and build an igloo. Nothing like putting partisan weather politics aside for a fun afternoon with the family, especially when- wait a second, what's that?

There's a sign on that igloo.

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