There was a lunar eclipse overnight, and Portlanders who were awake a lot later than me got about an hour to see it before clouds covered it up. But don’t despair! The Oregonian has pictures here.
Pembina Pipleine Corp., a Canadian company that wants to build a $500 million propane export terminal at the Port of Portland, could have to pay $6.4 million a year to offset its carbon emissions if environmentalists have their way. The gas giant argues that it shouldn’t have to pay because much of its product is shipped to Asia where it’s used to make plastic. The company’s “logic” is that the carbon is embedded in the plastic and doesn’t get emitted as a greenhouse gas, therefore it doesn’t contribute to climate change. HAHAHAHAHAHA.
The sleazy California dude convicted in February of identity theft and extortion for his really awful revenge porn scheme is going to prison for 18 years, according to this L.A. Times article.
I don’t know what’s worst about the trainwreck of Mötley Crüe’s Vince Neil butchering the National Anthem, the singing or the jacket. Or the jeans. Or the hair.
This horrific Kenyan terrorist attack hasn’t seen a lot of mainstream media airtime, but it should. Nearly 150 students were killed on Thursday by gunmen in the worst attack in Kenya since 1998.
Seven San Francisco cops are getting fired for sending racist texts, according to this New York Times article.
Sigh. More racism: Ferguson, Missouri officials released the contents of racist emails that caused police Capt. Rick Henke and Sgt. William Mudd and Court Clerk Mary Ann Twitty to resign. The emails contained cracks about welfare recipients being unemployed, unable to speak English, lazy and having no “clue who their daddies are,” according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
In other ludicrous news out of Missouri, Republican lawmaker Rick Brattin has introduced legislation that would ban food stamp recipients from using their monthly stipend to buy “cookies, chips, energy drinks, soft drinks, seafood or steak.”
Here’s a scary interactive map that shows exactly how screwed for water California is.
It’s a dog dressed as an Easter bunny on a Roomba: