The end of my "Four Fun Things" series!

Quoted: Let's make our way downtown – a part of the city we Seattleites sometimes forget to appreciate. But every once in a while, it’s nice to feel the bustle of a crowd … and of course, you can’t let your visitors leave Seattle without hitting up these four spots:

In other depressing news...

Quoted: The Washington Post is closing its last U.S. bureaus outside the nation's capital as the money-losing newspaper retrenches to focus on politics and local news.

Um, yeah, Jeff and I flew yesterday afternoon/evening and there was totally no holiday crush at the airport. So weird! Meanwhile, the free Wi-Fi at Sea-Tac totally rules...

Quoted: The holiday crush at the nation’s airports has taken hold several days earlier as travelers sought less expensive flights.

Wow, this is a powerful, depressing quote: "Chapter 7 ‘has become the insurance system for the country,’ trustee says"

Quoted: Lawyers and court officials say that medical debt is leading to more bankruptcies.

Scary ...

Quoted: A public interest group finds a number of toys at major retailers that contain the outlawed chemicals and illegal amounts of lead.

Shrewd timing for the arrests. Meanwhile, I can't believe it's been a year...

Quoted: Pakistani prosecutors charged seven men on Wednesday with planning and helping execute last year's Mumbai terror attacks.

Is it me, or does this sound like Dr. Evil plot line out of Austin Powers?

Quoted: A rare Siberian tiger fitted by Vladimir Putin with a radio-tracking collar has vanished, a Russian environmentalist said, dramatizing the plight of an endangered species.

Big news...

Quoted: Hailing the relationship between the United States and India as one of the "defining partnerships" in the world, President Barack Obama announced Tuesday that he has accepted an invitation to visit India next year.

Wow. I never cease to be amazed by how strange people are...

Quoted: From all across this great nation (and Canada), entries arrived in my inbox for Slate's Google Suggest contest. The question at hand: What's the best example of "less intelligent" Google query contrasted with a "more intelligent" Google query?