Face it! We werent meant for the roads!
Face it! We weren't meant for the roads! Vera_Petrunina/Getty Images

Seattle, you are bad at driving: Allstate, the insurance company that asks if you’re in good hands, conducted a study that showed Seattle has some of the worst drivers in the country. Out of 200 cities, Seattle ranked 179th. Considering wet weather, Seattle ranked 180th. The results were found based on accident data—apparently Seattle drivers go an average of 6.4 years between accident claims. The national average is 10 years. Get better at driving, Seattle, or lose your car.

We’re living in jobland! The unemployment rate in Washington dropped to 4.3 percent last month. I almost typed 43 percent at first. That would have been a very different number. Anyway. This—4.3 percent—is a new historic low. Although comparable records have only existed on this since 1976.

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Everett woman allegedly kills husband, turns self in: The 50-year-old woman allegedly stabbed her husband multiple times (to death 😕) in what she said was a planned murder. She turned herself into the police after the murder.

New York is already fed up with Amazon: Residents of Long Island City in Queens, New York are worried they aren’t going to be able to stay in their neighborhood when Amazon moves in next door. A realistic fear. Other local leaders, activists, and labor leaders gathered to protest all the perks New York is giving Amazon like tax incentives and a helipad.

Give us more rain please: I would like some moisture, por favor.


Oh, c’mon: Hope, you fickle bitch.


What the fuck is going on with Michael Avenatti? Reports circulated today that Avenatti was arrested on suspected charges of domestic violence. He is supposedly in custody in Los Angeles but hasn’t been booked. Except…


Apparently, Avenatti’s wife says that not only would Avenatti never do this but she hasn’t seen him in months. Did TMZ, the outlet that first broke this story, get duped? Is this related to Stormy Daniels’s arrest in Ohio this past July? Daniels, whose attorney is Avenatti, was accused of touching three undercover police officers at a strip club. Avenatti and Daniels suggested it was "a serious entrapment issue." Something’s fishy.

In other Avenatti news, he was cleared of fraud today: A real “legal” day for ol’ Mike. At least while he’s dealing with these possibly-fake domestic violence accusations he’ll have peace of mind that the California bar has cleared him of illegal and unethical dealings while running Tully’s. It’s the little things.

A man wearing gardeners’ gloves robs Capitol Hill pot shop: The suspect is still at large. In a span of 45 seconds, the armed man cleaned out Ruckus marijuana shop of cash. He stole $5,141.

Cool read of the day: This was spooky. It’s about this family that moves into a new home in suburban New Jersey—and that’s not even the scary part. They start getting creepy letters about someone watching them. Then come the threats. What unfolds is a harrowing tale about real estate, online rumors, and a stark lack of compassion.

Another thing on your reading list for tonight: This piece about Paradise, CA, the town ravaged by wildfires. Paradise High School survived the wreckage. But, nearly 90 percent of its student body is homeless. How will the class of 2019 graduate?

Giant fucking impact crater found under Greenland ice sheet: Look. Before I get into the facts I just want to say my first thought was that it’s aliens, too. I mean, did anyone else watch that shitty X-Files movie where there literally was a spaceship under an ice sheet? Hmm? ANYONE? Okay, yeah. So science tells us that this 9.3 mile-wide crater was caused by a fat meteorite that slammed into Greenland 12,000 years ago.