So that joint you started smoking right after you woke up? It’s making Gaia cry. Growing and rolling just one “marijuana cigarette,” a California study finds, is as bad as leaving a 100-watt light bulb burning for 17 hours. Indoor dope growing, overall, is like adding 3 million more cars to the nation’s roads.

S’okay, stoners (and actual sick people who really, truly need their sticky-icky). The governor of Montana’s got your back.

While you fed your babies salvaged bread crusts in 2008, Goldman Sachs was gleefully burning the large sums of money it made off the financial crisis, according a congressional report that also accuses Goldman Sachs execs of lying their asses off about all the profits. (And yet… sigh.)

Barack Obama really is a pinko, thank god goodness. In his speech on the deficit, the president says we really ought to leave the poorest among us alone. And now it’s time for a breakdown.

The United States is content to watch its NATO allies largely fail to stop LIbya’s Moammar Qaddafi from beating the shit out of the country’s ill-equipped rebels, despite the coalition’s ongoing attempts (when they’re not too busy killing civilians).

In news about an epic contest I previously had no idea was being waged, Australian horticulturalists have created the world’s hottest pepper, the male-stripperifically named Trinidad Scorpion Butch T.

Charged hundreds of dollars to “join” a special military unit, and help their chances at legal immigration, a bunch of Chinese nationals mostly culled from Southern California restaurants, were really only helping a con man live high on the hog.

After more terrifying tales about sleeping air traffic controllers, the fellow in charge of America’s tower monkeys has stepped down. Oh, and no more overnight shifts with just one person to peek at the radar, says the FAA.

The censors in China have declared a fatwa against time travel (and any kind of absurdity or fantasy) on screen. But it’s not because of plot holes or deus ex machina or paradoxes, etc. It’s because rewriting history is the government’s job.

Also, science will kill us all.

Also, also, thanks a million Burger King in Japan!

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Denis C. Theriault is the Portland Mercury's News Editor. He writes stories about City Hall and the Portland Police Bureau, focusing on issues like homelessness, police oversight, insider politics, and...

11 replies on “Good Morning, News!”

  1. I’m really glad that Reagan broke the Traffic Controllers Union back in the 80’s. He certainly did a lot to help improve safety.

  2. And Americans hated Reagan. Most of the people I read off still speak very badly of him. He´s shunned out in all the documentaries. I was too small in the 80´s to know in 1st person that behind that face existed a badly buttoned fake cashmere revolution, living it off my skin. (I like good cashmere). But I know the direction he wanted the nation to take.

    Somehow the news today feel more straight forward than others days. Me likey.

  3. Jim Carrey as a shit-canned secret agent who recruits and trains a black-ops team from a wacky, motley group of Chinese restaurant workers…and saves the nation! BOX OFFICE GOLD!

    I have to go write the screenplay now. But first, I have to go leave a 100-watt light bulb burning for 17 hours, if you know what I mean.

  4. I had to make it obvious, Leaky, for our sloooower readers…

    If we save stems and pipe scrapings for the less privileged, we should be able to got some kind of carbon offset credits. Or something. Or…something.

  5. Dude you use LED grow lights so the man can’t catch you using the infra-red black helicopters.

    Meat monster is cheap and Called the Lighthouse Burger at 10808 NW Saint Helens Rd. This is where you grandpa goes when he wants to have a heart attack.8 oz burger with ham, egg, cheese and a burger salad. Try to avoid detaching your jaw while eating it.

  6. How in the name of everything holy can Burger King make the Meat Monster available in Japan AND NOT IN AMERICA?!

    That burger is America.

  7. I guess it´s not in vogue now to be a full time stoner, have 145 watts (energy saving) bulbs, and eat at Burguer King. Damn, things chance so much and so fast.

    Good thing we get to try a Doritos made enchilada with Doritos inside of em and call it a Taco.

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