Sure, write that violent vampire sex thriller with your military buddies. Just know, while you do, that the Oregon Family Council is always watching, and that they love election-year distractions.
A Portland-area Wells Fargo employee thought he’d shame the company into across-the-board raises, CCing 200,000 co-workers on an email explaining how the bank’s billions in income might be fairly shared with its workers. Tyrel Oates’ crucial miscalculation: Corporate America is impervious to shame.
One time Vladimir Putin insisted on setting a tiger free with his own hands. Now that tiger is in poach-happy China, and the plight of the tiger (in the universal sense) is news again.
Idaho’s in! A temporary stay on same-sex marriages has been lifted there, and the Pacific Northwest is more or less united in its support of marriage equality at last. Welcome, Idaho.
Just in time for game day, the New York Times has pointed its investigative arsenal at the Florida State University (number-one-ranked) football program, and the gross special treatments its players receive from fan-cops happy to overlook serious, troubling crimes.
The biggest fan of US airstrikes against ISIS’ Syrian contingent? President Bashar al-Assad, who’s taking the opportunity to attack rebel groups the US considers potential allies.
No, I don’t use/understand Snapchat. And, yes, that makes me smugly satisfied that millions of its users may have had their ill-advised sexts captured and leaked.
Those protests you may have heard of in a Hong Kong bristling under Beijing’s authoritarian hand? They’re plots—PLOTS!—of the United States. So says China.
Grandfather privileges are revoked when you drop a toddler INTO THE JAGUAR EXHIBIT. This is bad.
Say your goodbyes.
I, like you, am tired of Internet videos where unlikely people do unlikely dances. Unless there is cooking involved.