The car crash on Lake City is absolutely horrifying.

The driver of the SUV must have hit the smaller car at a very high rate of speed, considering the small car flew 100 yards and then exploded. Good god. He must not have braked at all. Talking on the cellphone? Yelling at the two little girls in the backseat?

Or improbably, yet possibly the truth: having a seizure and blacking out while driving.

There are some interesting rebuttal pieces to the 60 Minutes story, largely focusing on the fact that CBS left out a lot of contextual information that would have weakened its argument. While I'm not saying that insider trading doesn't exist among members of congress, I do think it's important to get the whole story, not just what CBS wants to sensationalize.

It's warmer in Spokane than here, actually, and about 10-15 degrees warmer on the Eastside than West of the Coast Mountains.

By the way, Occupy Hawaii was a roaring success and got major media attention worldwide.

Crap, I was riding on Lake City Way not long before then. Shudder.

@3, what "contextual information" would that be? The congressmen specifically discussed in the story had plenty of opportunities to present possible factors explaining their OBVIOUSLY CRIMINAL behavior. Can you deny that members insider-trade? Almost everyone in congress, in both houses, is in the 1% of wealthiest Americans, and even the few who aren't quickly become so when they leave office and get "consultant" jobs on K Street.

60 Minutes has gotten really shitty. Last night's Steve Kroft story was more about Steve Kroft than any sort of deep investigative reporting on Congressional insider trading. Same with last week's Lesley Stahl story on Jack Abramoff. Too many cutaways of Stahl's stupid mug. These are not journalists.