Politics (Un)Seriously

Japan's Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa showed that it's not always cool to mix work and pleasure, especially if your pleasure is throwing back stiff drinks. Nakagawa resigned after this unfortunate showing at the G7 meeting in Rome where he slurred his words and almost nodded off multiple times during his speech. He blamed his performance on flu medicine, but as Rachel Maddow points out, "I don't speak Japanese, but I speak hammered, and that dude was hammered."