Sure, you've lost everything and your entire town has been obliterated by one of the most devastating series of tornadoes in history. Doesn't mean you can't still eat smart, local and organic!

It's been a rough 24 hours across the storm-ravaged South. Here's a roundup of the latest news.

The death toll from the storms and tornadoes that tore across the south yesterday has risen, with the governor of Alabama today saying that 128 people are confirmed dead there. Dozens more across the region have died.

A monstrous tornado nearly a mile wide killed fifteen people in Tuscaloosa, Ala. and "obliterated" parts of the city when it touched down on Wednesday afternoon. These videos should give you some sense of how terrifying a tornado can be.

Pleasures, Alabama's drive-thru sex shop, is offering a great Valentine's Day special: Until February 15, customers can swap firearms for store credit. The store's owner, Sherri Williams told AFP, "This way, they can take something that's just lying around and swap it for something they can take home and make love, not war with."

The state of Alabama—and, indeed, the southern region of America as a whole—is reeling in shock and disbelief this week after reports that a white frat boy at the University of Alabama yelled "nigger" at a black student walking by his frat house. A white frat boy, in Alabama, uttering a racial slur? Now we've heard it all.

Hours before taking the oath of office yesterday, Governor-elect of Alabama Robert Bentley gave a speech saying that he intends to unite Alabamans and that he is "color blind." Everyone felt great! Then Bentley said he wants everyone to convert.

[Wish you lived in this photo? This beach—perhaps not coincidentally—is called Orange Beach, and it's in Alabama. Was the sunset this nice where you were? Photo via AP.]

It started this summer, a wave of demented campaign ads that fell into the laps of lazy political bloggers like manna from heaven. Many went viral. But now the genre is killing itself by trying way too hard.

In that it's about theater camp, the greatest setting for a movie possible. Because songs plus sleepaway camp = correct. Also today: Sandra Bullock works on a mysterious new feature, exciting comedy news, and the possible death of another show.

VBS and three-piece-suited wonder boy Ian Svenonius ventures to America's deep, deep south to Muscle Shoals, Alabama, an unexpected Mecca of early rock apostles who founded and run FAME Recording Studios.

There are many interesting ways to earn a living in our post-industrial economy. Like ranting on camera about your sister being nearly raped. That's what Antoine Dodson did—now he's got a Hot 100 Billboard single!

If you're running for mayor of a small Alabama town, the clearest path to victory is simply making up an endorsement from the Alabama football coach. But don't get caught, like Dorothy Davidson's campaign did! That ruins the whole plan.

You know you're dealing with quality when a mixtape pops up only four days later. Antoine Dodson just wants you know there's a rapist in Lincoln Park, but there's no better warning than a song. Run and tell that, homie.

This soon-to-be viral gem straight out of Alabama's local news is probably the best thing to come out of a story about a rapist on the loose. The victim's brother really steals the show around the 1 minute mark.

Alabama's WKRG wanted to investigate how much oil was in the water at the state's beaches so they collected samples. When a chemist tried to study it, the water exploded! Isn't this how an environmental horror movie usually starts?

Rick Barber, the wannabe Republican candidate for Congress in Alabama, lost his runoff election, despite his informative and educational television ads, which featured him in conversation with various founding fathers, and Abraham Lincoln.

Why remove the oil beneath the sand along Gulf beaches when you can just let it sit there forever? It's not hurting anyone. That's the thinking of some "experts," at least. What you can't see won't hurt you!

It's been far too long since we've had an upstanding politician remind us, in a conversation with Abraham Lincoln, that "taxation" is slavery and the Holocaust combined. (It's actually worse.) Thanks, insane congressional candidate Rick Barber of fleeting Internet fame!

Alabama tourism rep Rebecca Wilson has been filming oil spill updates from Orange Beach every day for weeks, as conditions worsen. Watching her put a cheery perspective on the tar ball-pummeled beach, is both amusing and depressing.