GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! I hope he won't forget to clack his castanets, and to his reindeer say, "Oh Pancho, Oh! Vixen, Oh! Pedro, Oh! Blitzen," Ole! Ole! Ole! Santa Claus! LET'S GO TO PRESS.

As we reported in the wee hours of the morning, Portland's police watchdog group points their finger at the cops for the way they heavily scrutinize hiphop shows or any event where there are a lot of black patrons.

Portland cops are still looking for the suspect who led them on a not-so-merry chase through Southeast yesterday, tossing four pipe bombs at them from his window.

A Nordstrom employee says some dumb, thoughtless things online—and gets fired for his trouble.

Cuba has freed an American prisoner, Alan Gross, on "humanitarian grounds" after requests from Obama's White House—all of which signals a warming relationship between the two countries.

The NYC premiere of the movie The Interview has been cancelled due to threats from the same people who hacked Sony Pictures (ahem... the North Koreans... ahem).

And because they're chickenshits, one theater chain is refusing to show The Interview.

Meanwhile Sony is rightfully panicking, demanding Reddit ban users who are sharing the hacked emails.

The prime minister of Pakistan has lifted the death penalty ban in his country, following the massacre of 132 school children and nine of their teachers at the hands of the Taliban.

And the reason the Taliban killed all those children? Because they suspected that many of the kids' fathers were soldiers and didn't want them to follow in their parents' footsteps.

According to multiple polls, a majority of Americans believe that, yes, what the CIA did to terrorism suspects was torture, and yes, they are totally okay with that. TERRIBLE AMERICANS.

Bill Cosby asks for special consideration from the black media; black media says "NOPE."

Unlike Bill Cosby, 7th Heaven star Stephen Collins makes a public admission that he molested three underaged girls.

Today in "Good to Know": "JK Rowling confirms that there were Jewish wizards at Hogwarts." GOOD TO KNOW!

Now here's what's going on in your neck of the woods: Perhaps a few showers today, with a wet, warm weekend ahead.

And finally, when a lady tries to pose for a selfie with the Transformers' Megatron at an amusement park, MEGATRON DROPS AN ATOM BOMB OF TRUTH UPON HER.