GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! Just slide, glide, slippity-slide. Just forget about your troubles and your 9 to 5. LET'S GO TO PRESS.

Things are so bad in typhoon-ravaged Tacloban (in the Philippines), the mayor is telling his residents to flee the city.

Like how bad? Mobs. Looting. Gunfire.

Here's a story about how some states are still experiencing serious problems in enrolling for government health care... and guess who's mentioned first? OREGON.

Meanwhile a source high up in the site's technology department says there's no way the healthcare websites will be fixed by the end of the month.

A group of outside experts have turned in their interim report card on the NSA to the White House, with a final report due on December 15. (Be sure to take your blood pressure medication that day.)

Speaking of medicine, good news for those whose doctors have been nagging them about high cholesterol—instead of taking extra medication to help you get better, scientists have decided to move the goal posts.

NASA has released some new images of Saturn that don't especially look "real" to me, but they are very pretty and you can pick out Earth in the background. (Hey! I can see my house!)

Toronto mayor Rob Ford had to answer some purrrrr-etty embarrassing questions today in his city council meeting. (Including having to admit he purchased drugs within the last two years.)

And for those who feign interest in Seattle politics, this is actually interesting! A week after the election, City Council candidate (and economics professor and SOCIALIST) Kshama Suwant has taken a narrow lead over incumbant Richard Conlin who has already publicly proclaimed victory. This is causing all sorts of political mayhem up north, and thusly? THIS IS FUNNY.

OH NO! In a tragic accident at home, heartthrob Zac Efron has fallen and broken his jaw! HIS FACE! HIS BEAUTIFUL FACE!!

Now here's what's going on in your neck of the woods: A touch of sprinkles today and tomorrow, cool and rainy Friday and Saturday, and then the return of the sun.

And finally, here's a Japanese candy commercial from 1999 starring an impossibly young Britney Spears, because... sometimes it's good to stop and wonder where all the time has gone.