Wettest Saturday on Record: The 1.71 inches of rain, no Maroon 5 at the Gorge (the first time they've ever canceled a show there due to weather in 27 years), and the wet, hot Genius Awards (with pictures). Artist acceptance-speech videos here.

Second Typhoon in a Week: In China.

In Kenya: The Red Cross says 39 people are still missing, down from 61. Fourteen were found alive.

Ladies! Ladies!: Driving a car damages your ovaries and pushes your pelvis upward. Stop moving around independently! Does riding in a car do the same thing? The bus? WHAT WILL WE DO?

You're More Creative: When you're tired. Well, that's a relief. Plus other things about your brain that are neat-o.

Not Snowden, But Success, Hampers US Intelligence?: After the discovery of the Qaeda plot in August, terrorists change tactics.

Senate to Shut Down House Attempt to Shut Down Affordable Health Care: Otherwise, the Republicans will close down the government. "Without a complete capitulation by House Republicans, large sections of the government would close, hundreds of thousands of workers would be furloughed without pay, and millions more would be asked to work for no pay."

A Tacoma Man Lost: Sixty-seven years of paperwork in the weekend storm. A half-ton manhole cover blew 20 feet in the air.

Amanda Knox Won't Return to Italy: It gave her panic attacks! Retrial will go on without her. She'll start up her final year studying creative writing at UW.

Sitting Ducks: Selling drugs after NA meetings in South Seattle.

Whoa: A man allegedly picked a fight with his girlfriend while driving a van, was thrown out when he hit a guardrail and wasn't wearing his seatbelt, then died.

The Murmurings of a Dictator at the Doctator's Office: Mubarak's ear, nose, and throat doctor secretly recorded him just jabbering. He discusses potato sandwiches, making us produce another bad pun. Dictator tot.

Athletes Need Dentists: Study after the London Olympics.

Have You Performed Two Miracles: You, too, could be canonised! Popes and saints news today.

Do You Sew and Need a Job?: Textile factories are on the upswing as Americans want American-sewn stuff, but they can't find enough people to work for them. "It's probably some duuuuudes who don't want to sewwwww," says one unnamed source. Yeah for unnamed sources.

Art Show Closed Because of Seizures: Strobes in Pittsburgh.

How You Hold Your Wine Glass: Determines whether you become a lush.

Open Letter to the Makers of Ginger Soother Drink: Dear Ginger Soother, your drink is so nice. It is true that it soothes the stomach, as you say. (I do not know whether it really can "drive away chills," but I enjoy hoping for this.) I have one note: Every one of your bottles is overfull. This makes spilling. Love, Jen

Now, be wolf-dog-soothed.