Look at little ol' KOIN! They've killed the comments on their website and declared "it’s time to be honest about what comment boards have morphed into over the years":
For every great, insightful comment or news tip I’ve seen over the past decade posted to the bottom of a story, I’ve dealt with 50 times more comments that add no value. Pseudonymous commenters seemingly have limitless time to post inanities, vitriol, sexually explicit, mindless, vulgar and hurtful notes about people and things of which they have only cursory knowledge.
Portland's new police chief let his officers know he read news stories about the cops in North Miami Beach who used real mugshots of African American men for target practice. His takeaway? Beyond the practice itself being "insensitive and shortsighted,"Larry O'Dea singled out the Florida chief's defensive response as particularly corrosive.
Cylvia Hayes, the governor's fiancée, has acknowledged collecting even more money from her side job as a private clean energy consultant—work that came at the same time as her work as a gubernatorial advisor. The new payouts reportedly weren't listed on Hayes' tax forms.
The University of Oregon professor who delighted in holding 22,000 pages campus documents and correspondence deemed secret by administrators gave them all back... but figures he's made "a point about the university's obsessive secrecy, about how it functions, makes decisions and operates as a public agency."
In Seattle, a police officer falsely accused a 70-year-old African American man merely walking and going about his business of trying to hit her with the golf club he was using as a cane—never mind there's not a scrap of video showing it—and got the man set up for a night in jail on obstruction charges.
But that's not all! Cops in San Francisco arrested a public defender outside the courthouse, while her colleagues filmed the whole thing, and put her in jail after she objected to plainclothes officers taking pictures of her client in connection with another case.
Cuba's complicating ongoing discussions with the United States about normalizing relations with a not-unreasonable demand: It wants Guantanamo Bay handed back.
The federal government's sweeping surveillance of license plates might be even bigger than the first reports this week have suggested,\ according to new documents released by the ACLU.
False fire alarms in the night have twice disturbed the hated New England Patriots in their Super Bowl week hotel rooms.
Recreational marijuana, in the eyes of Barack Obama's nominee for attorney general: “I do not support legalization of marijuana; it’s not the position of the Department of Justice currently to support the legalization, nor would it be the position should I become confirmed as attorney general."
Few things are more horrifying than a headline about a gas explosion at a children's hospital.
Cable companies make money hand over fist despite providing sluggish and dismal broadband service to large swaths of the country. Predictably, they're not happy with talk the FCC might set a speed standard almost five times as fast.
North Korea's probably going to kick the tires on its nuclear reactor, the one that makes weapons-grade fuel, just to see if it still runs. And also to see if anyone's paying attention. HI. WE ARE.
YOU CAN CHANGE YOU'RE LIFE, DOUG. JUST TAKE A FUCKING CHANCE.