Nerve Gas Alarm

So the Capitol building was evacuated last night.

A suspected nerve agent forced the evacuation of a U.S. Senate office building late on Wednesday until tests concluded the vapor that set off the alarm was harmless, police said.

Some 200 people, including several senators, were quarantined for three hours in a nearby underground garage while tests at the Russell Senate Office building determined they were never in danger.

And the politicians were at there best.

"We've been through a lot of these things in the Capitol. It's unfortunately a sign of the times," Sen. Judd Gregg, Republican of New Hampshire, said on CNN after leaving the Senate garage.

Not sure why it's unfortunate. Unfortunate would have been a nerve gas attack that really killed a bunch of the politicians. Or maybe that wouldn't have been so unfortunate.

Schneider said substances as benign as fertilizer could trigger a false positive result for chemical agents.

Well, you can be certain there were many fertilizer-like substances floating around that building.