Happy Second Day of Spring!: Your reward: Snow.

Give Some Shits: Don’t let the inclement weather stop you from swinging by the Mercury and Bus Project’s Give a Shit Happy Hour today!

Toulouse Takedown: French police kill the gunman that shot four Jewish schoolchildren after a three-day man hunt.

Changing Guard:Mali soldiers overthrow the government, sending President Amadou Toumani Toure into hiding, and looting his presidential estate.

Who’s There?: Mysterious loud “booms” in the night piss off and scare a Wisconsin town. The local church’s answer? The hand o’ God.

Red Flag: The wife of Jason Russell, Invisible Children’s public masturbation wild child, says her husband suffers from brief reactive psychosis. Sign me up!

Loo Layover: A broken toilet on an United Airlines flight leaves Beijing-bound passengers stranded in Anchorage for two days. Surprise! No one is pleased.

Holy Cellphone Cyborgs!: Nokiaโ€”yes, it still existsโ€”creates tattoos that vibrate whenever you receive a call or text message. THIS IS HORRIFYING.

Who’da Thunk: Top online dating sites decide that running a background check on members may be a smart move.

Mad Men: The game

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Alex Zielinski is a former News Editor for the Portland Mercury. She's here to tell stories about economic inequities, cops, civil rights, and weird city politics that you should probably be paying attention...

4 replies on “Good Morning News!”

  1. I dontknowwhythey are complaining over gettingstuck in Anchorage fot two days. Otherwise most people wont have visited ever that place. I heard it has lots of nice birds and its an overall interesting place. People are ungrateful with the gifts of destiny.

    The cell phone mobile did let me down. I was getting ready to get some sweet KISS Tattoos.

  2. So you have a week’s vacation, Leaky, plan to spend it in Shanghai, and end up stuck in Anchorage? That’s not a gift of destiny. That’s a swift kick to the solar plexus by destiny.

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