Unleash the rainbow.
This open thread is Obama's Katrina. After all, everything else is.
- Seattle will have a socialist member on its City Council:
Socialist Kshama Sawant will be on the next Seattle City Council.
Longtime Seattle City Council member Richard Conlin conceded to challenger Sawant Friday evening, after new election numbers showed her ever-widening lead of 1,640 votes in the race for Position 2.
“It has been a privilege to be your representative and I am proud of what we have done together,” Conlin said Friday after the election numbers were released.
Sawant sat down with KING 5 News on Friday. She admits she isn't entirely accustomed to the political spotlight.
"I didn't set out to do this. I wasn't thinking about holding an elective office. I just wanted to be an activist," Sawant said.
- I could have made this entire thread about #Batkid, but I'm not going to do that, so here's a simple link instead, just in case you missed the entire thing yesterday somehow.
- Looks like Buzzfeed will have a new methodology to work with. Introducing...the cinemagraph.
- There just might be a breeding population of green anacondas in the Florida Everglades:
The green anaconda does not have this problem. Unlike its smaller relative, the anaconda gives birth to live young rather than laying eggs. It can easily slither away from fire ant bites. What’s more, the anaconda would be less likely to encounter fire ants in the first place. Unlike the Burmese pythons, which are found on land and in trees as often as in the water, the green anaconda is an almost wholly aquatic snake. Perhaps this is why the green anaconda can afford to be about 50 percent heavier than a python of the same length. All of that enormous bulk is borne by the water most of the time.
Maybe they could make a movie out of it and...oh nevermind.
- Jeez, Toronto. First Rob Ford, and now this?
- No, seriously, more on the whole Batkid thing: the Department of Justice has actually issued a press release announcing the arrests of The Riddler and The Penguin. You can't make this stuff up:
SAN FRANCISCO/GOTHAM – Edward “E.” Nigma, aka, “The Riddler,” and Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot, aka, “The Penguin” were formally arrested today and charged with multiple counts of conspiracy and kidnapping for their all too familiar villainous ways in Gotham City, according to Melinda Haag, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California and FBI Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson.
The unique and somewhat unprecedented indictment not only outlines the charges against “The Riddler” and “The Penguin” but it also includes a special thanks to a certain caped crusader who was pivotal in making this day a reality.
“We’ve been chasing Nigma and Cobblepot for years and just when I was about to give up hope that we would ever bring them to justice, wouldn’t you know it – Batkid shows up and saves the day,” said United States Attorney Melinda Haag. “I’ve been involved in some unbelievable cases and I’ve worked with some pretty remarkable law enforcement officers, but the bravery displayed by Batkid is off the charts. I’m absolutely certain that there is no villain this remarkable super-hero can’t defeat.”
The amount of buy-in on this event was sensational.
- This is just horrible. And not even a nice Chianti?