GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! Jump in my ride. It’s Friday night. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. LET’S GO TO PRESS.
A football game starring Katy Perry and some commercials was played yesterday and Seattle lost it in a humiliating way.
Here’s a quick review of the Super Bowl Halftime show courtesy of USA Today: “If the show was a bit much at times, it was also energetic and silly and effervescent and happy. Which was a welcome relief from a slew of first-half commercials built around guilty fathers and dead children.” OUCH.
Portland strippers are heading to Salem to woo legislators into granting them better working conditions.
Obama tees up his next big battle with Republicans— a $4 trillion budget designed to redistribute taxes from the rich to the middle-class and infrastructure.
Another Obama idea that Republicans hate? Net neutrality, and his plan to regulate the internet like water and electricity.
Presidential wannabe Chris Christie backtracks from his previous statement about the measles outbreak, in which he said that parents should have some choice on whether or not to vaccinate their children.
In even worse stupidity, presidential wannabe Mike Huckabee has called homosexuality a “lifestyle choice” like smoking and swearing.
Headline of the day (so far): “Red Power Ranger actor charged with murdering roommate with sword.”
Because guns keep us safer, a three-year-old boy removes a gun from his pregnant mother’s purse and shoots her and his father.
Punxsutawney Phil, the meteorologist groundhog, has predicted six more weeks of winter (or in our case, six more weeks of non-winter).
Now here’s what’s going on in your neck of the woods: Rainy today with a high of 54. That goddamn groundhog was right!!

