GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! So if you feelin’ right, grab the Kryptonite. If this your song tonight, then it’s on tonight. LET’S GO TO PRESS.

Are you a parking ticket scofflaw? Then Commissioner Steve Novick has a possible way to make you pay that $32.4 million in parking tickets… and it’s called THE BOOT!

If you love protests and you love bikes, do we have a day for you! There are FOUR bike related protests happening today, and one is smack dab in city hall.

Here’s everything you need to know today from the New York Times: “Counter to public perception, nearly twice as many people have been killed on American soil since Sept. 11, 2001, by white supremacists and other non-Muslim extremists than by radical Muslims, according to a research group.”

While South Carolina continues to waffle on the subject, the governor of Alabama orders the Confederate flag to be removed from a Civil War memorial.

“Creationist candidate” and Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal is the latest of the long line of losers to join the Republican presidential race.

The Associated Press pulls some photos of Republican presidential wannabe Ted Cruz at a shooting range with a picture of a gun pointing at his head, because it could send “the wrong idea.”

The unarmed Los Angeles man who was killed by police (and then handcuffed) on Friday after approaching cops with his hands up has been identified—but the police are still trying to convince everyone it was his fault for getting shot.

By the end of this week, the Supremes will probably have decided whether or not to give the a-okay to same sex marriage. (But no matter what happens? The fight goes on.)

A Sacramento judge has put the kibosh on a proposed California ballot measure that would call for the execution of gay people. Hmmm… that gives me a good idea for a ballot measure….

The families of the Boston Marathon bombing victims get their day in court to tell murderer Dzhokhar Tsarnaev just how he’s affected their lives.

A secret agency in Russia has been exposed whose job is to flood the internet’s comment sections with pro-Kremlin propaganda… or as it’s called, a “troll factory.” I KNEW YOU GUYS WERE BEING MASS PRODUCED SOMEWHERE!!

Now here’s a report about WEATHER: A warm 85 degrees today that will zoom up to 100 by the weekend.

And finally, a great way to start your day is by watching a very impressive stop-motion karate video… wouldn’t you say?

Bang bang, choo-choo train, let me see you shake that thang. Wm. Steven Humphrey is the editor-in-chief of the Portland Mercury and has held the job since 2000. (So don’t get any funny ideas.)