OK so now somebody set themselves on fire in a DC park.

[arely staircase]

The navy base shooting, the woman in the car with the baby and now this are like the opening scenes of some Manchurian Candidate-like movie. No link yet, but CNN reporting.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Seems like things are breaking bad everywhere these days.

[kestrel91316]

2. Probably couldn't find information about healthcare plans to evaluate them.

Because I have been trying all day to find out my options, which have disappeared from the broken Covered CA website, and trying to decide which crappy HMO with the fewest specialists and even family practitioners, and with access only to the most distant hospital in the area, to choose from.

Got a hospital 1/4 mile away, but Healthnet doesn't use it. They only use 1 hospital in the entire San Fernando Valley: Valley Presbyterian, which is in a really crappy, dangerous neighborhood and not on a bus route.

Now I know why HMOs are so loved.

[bunnies]

3. Yep. Link w/non-graphic pics.

More: http://inthecapital.streetwise.co/2013/10/04/man-lights-himself-on-fire-in-the-national-mall-photos/

[Aerows]

4. Horrible

and tragic.

[Barack_America]

5. Luke Russert must be shitting himself. A helicopter landing....

...in the mall two days in a row.(sorry, he really annoyed me yesterday)

As for the troubled gentleman, I cannot imagine what would cause you to inflict such pain on yourself, but my thoughts are with you.

[malaise]

7. I heard that the person on fire is on the National Mall

I'd love details