Swastika tattooist in the clink and on Santa's naughty list

33-year-old Clinten Lawrence McClain of Hatboro in southeastern Pennsylvania is facing charges after police allege he assaulted a woman and threatened to tattoo a swastika onto her forehead. McClain was charged with simple assault, reckless endangerment, false imprisonment, and related offenses after police were called to a hotel on Sunday for a report of a disturbance in one of the rooms. Investigators said they found a woman crying inside the room who told them McClain struck her and threatened to kill her, then held her down and placed a tattoo machine to her head, threatening to tattoo a swastika on her forehead. McClain is being held in the Montgomery County Correctional Facility in lieu of $20,000 cash bail, and you can rest assured he'll be spending Christmas behind bars with a huge lump of coal destined for his stocking. Speaking of coal, coal-fired power plants are shutting their doors at a record pace — and for the most part, nobody’s building new ones. The latest round in the war on coal? Not exactly. The reality is that Americans’ lights will stay on just fine even as coal plants continue to close, thanks to a quiet revolution in energy efficiency and a boom time for cheap natural gas. Throw in some stricter rules for older plants, and the result is a sharp drop in the economic viability of coal-fired power. Maybe they should phase out all fossil fuels and we'll have much cleaner energy for life.