Today in horrible pieces of shit: Josh Powell and 2 young sons believed dead in home explosion.

"According to the Tacoma News Tribune, Powell's attorney said he received an email moments before the explosion from Powell. It read simply, 'I'm sorry, goodbye.'"

Syrian civilians continue to die: Fifty more dead in the city of Hom.

Another gunshot fatality in Seattle, another uncooperative crowd: "Police said witnesses were 'less than forthcoming with investigating officers.'" Details of the shooting remain under investigation.

Several new proposals for evaluating state teachers: They all involve "moving from a two-level rating — satisfactory or unsatisfactory — to a four-level rating system that would give teachers more feedback and thus help them improve. Under the earlier system, almost all teachers were rated satisfactory."

Morons consider eating dog while lost in the woods of southern Oregon: "She's that good a dog, she'd have done it, too," one said. Wha?

We're next! 5.7 earthquake off B.C.

There's gold in them there hills: Canadians are after gold in the hills outside Wenatchee.

It's raining homeless men: Guy falls off overpass and is hit by car. "The area near the overpasses between Capitol Hill and downtown over I-5 has seen regular occurrences of people jumping, falling or attempting to cross the busy freeway to access fenced-off areas often used by homeless people to camp."

I remember when I lived in Oliver Tower, I saw a woman fall down onto the transit lane. Medics couldn't find her, and one eventually had to jump down from actual I-5, where the ambulances had stopped, to get to her. Then, minutes later in a seemingly unrelated incident, there was a dog running north on southbound I-5. All hell had broken loose on that bit of I-5 that day.

And here is some karate rap that you apparently have to click on the permalink to watch: