The best part of this Oregonian play-by-play of how Portland police (capably) handled the recent shooting outside NE Portland's Rosemary Anderson High School: Cops bought pizza for the students who remained on scene, since their lunch hour had been disrupted. (Do Portland police have a pizza obsession?)

He didn't say it outright, but Mercury Senior Editor Erik Henriksen strongly hinted that he's done walking around in downtown Portland since he learned yesterday that hapless Mercedes drivers might drop huge slabs on concrete onto him. It's a real threat, Portland. Beware the Mercedes driver.

Comrade Comcast Customer: You could be missing out on far-faster Internet as we speak. Hurry and check.

Yes! Imagine all that seething, humid, lizard-flecked, bigoted rage playing out in Florida, now that the Supreme Court has said it won't stop same-sex marriages from going forward next month.

Shots fired! Biting rhetorical shots, that is, from North Korea, which explicitly denies having anything to do with a cyberattack on Sony, and which wants the US to come check it out. It's also threatening consequences if we retaliate (and notably not ruling out a cyberattack among those consequences). But check this biting retort: “We have a way to prove that we have nothing to do with the case without resorting to torture, as what the C.I.A. does." We just got served by the bleak laughingstock of the planet.

Airbnb hosts: Probably don't let your homeowner's insurance company know that you're an Airbnb host. But if you do, and when your policy is inevitably and swiftly dropped, Airbnb is rolling out its own backup insurance. It's free!

I know everyone wants to go to Cuba, but I really want to go to Cuba.

Meet the small Pentagon task force that's breaking all sorts of orders to improperly collect information about Americans.

Related: So the CIA improperly surveilled a Senate committee investigating the CIA, right? Well, the CIA's not going to face consequences, because a panel largely made up of CIA employees says it shouldn't. This is an actual situation.

I have been in the White House briefing room, and it is choked, at all times, with dudes— mostly white dudes like myself. Which is why, even though it shouldn't be remarkable that President Obama called on only women reporters during his last press conference of the year, it is.

Wouldn't it be great if the cure for our inability to kick our oil dependance was cheap oil? You can almost see that play out, given all the loud fretting about scuttled oil production if the price of black gold doesn't shoot up soon. Of course it won't last.

This thing in Australia... A woman apparently stabbed her seven children, and a niece or nephew, to death.

And then there were 132. The US has released four Afghanis from the still-operational prison at Guantanamo Bay. President Obama is on a roll, executive action-wise. Will we finally see the prison closed before his term is up?

Guess today's sunset. Wrong, it's at 4:29 pm, one minute later than Tuesday.

Don't know about y'all, but where I'm from, when you get a chance to legitimately use the term "toad-choker," you take it.

If you haven't already been watching this on loop, time to start!