Holy Crap! Yesterday a tornado ripped through Vancouver! Apparently, Mother Nature doesn’t like Vancouver either.

As usual, the Homeland Security Department wants to make it more annoying to live in the U.S. Their latest brilliant idea is the REAL ID Act, which is supposed to make it harder for terrorist to get a driver’s license. One key aspect of the act is to put all IMPORTANT words in CAPITAL LETTERS.

In Washington County, the reality TV “star” Matt Roloff (the dad on that dwarf show, “Little People, Big World”) has been acquitted of a DUI charge. The judge declared “jury misconduct” after jurors got on the internet to look up legal definitions to some of the jargon being tossed around the court room.

In more bizarre weather news—it snowed in Baghdad! According to venerable locals, the mythical white “snow-rain” hasn’t been seen in the capital since the ’40s.

And I’m saddened to report that figure skating champion and child actor Christopher Bowman “the Showman” was found dead in an L.A. motel, possibly of a drug overdose.

-Jennifer Furniss