GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! I'm in the club with my homies, try'na get a lil V-I, keep it down on the low key. 'Cause you know how it feels. LET'S GO TO PRESS.
Hey, someone got very close to using the new Tillikum Crossing Bridge this weekend... by jumping into the river to elude police. (He was caught. Sad trombone.)
If Gov. Kate Brown signs off on it, a new law may provide big tech companies with the tax breaks they want to start building data centers in rural Oregon.
Marijuana will be legal in a couple of months... but does it seem to you that maybe the regulations that should be moving into place aren't moving quite fast enough? Me, too.
Two men dressed as women tried to sneak into a NSA facility in Maryland, causing a shootout that left one dead and another severely injured.
Amazon gives the finger to the U.S. by testing their delivery drone system in Canada. MAN, THEY GET ALL THE COOL STUFF!!
Turns out the co-pilot of the deliberately crashed Germanwings plane was treated for suicidal tendencies.
South African comedian Trevor Noah will replace Jon Stewart as host of the Daily Show, and chances are, two or three people on Twitter will be angry about it.
Apple CEO Tim Cook writes a blistering editorial in the Washington Post, taking US legislators to task for protecting "religious freedom laws" that discriminate against the LGBTQ community.
Wait... President Obama is visiting Kenya? HA! I KNEW IT!!! WHAT HAVE I BEEN TELLING YOU PEOPLE ALL THESE YEARS???
An employee of the Australian Immigration Department accidentally leaked a lot of personal information belonging to prominent world leaders. Whups.
As an example of the depths of idiocy many Republicans have descended to, there's this poll which shows a third of them believe that Russian Prez Vladimir Putin and Syrian Prez Bashar al-Assad are less of a threat to America than President Obama.
Seven people were shot at a Florida spring break party that got waaaaay out of control. Spriiiing breaaaaaaak.
Now here's what's going on in your neck of the woods: Gorgeous today, but the showers return for a long stretch starting tomorrow. Soak it up! Spriiiiing breaaaaaak.
And finally, this automatic cat petter could also pass as an automatic cat strangler... but you be the judge.
