No power in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince? The folks over at Foreign Policy magazine, always helpful, have this fine suggestion:

Would it be possible to use the nuclear generators aboard an American aircraft carrier or submarine to provide electricity to Port-au-Prince? Cdr. Herb Carmen, Best Defense's pirates columnist, points out an interesting precedent -- in 1929, when the city of Tacoma, Washington, couldn't generate enough hydroelectricity because of a severe drought, the USS Lexington hooked up and powered the city for a month.

Is there nothing the U.S. military cannot or should not do in a pinch? Does armed social work know any bounds? And when will we, mere Americans, receive of the gifts of such bounty as aid dropped from the skies, military rule, and portable nuclear power?