What's the Opposite of a Christmas Miracle? The Archdiocese of Seattle announced yesterday that Eastside Catholic High School vice principal Mark Zmuda would be fired for marrying a man, causing students in Bellevue and Seattle to protest the move. "Friday will be the last day at Eastside Catholic for [the] vice principal and swim coach... who joined the staff about a year and a half ago," the Seattle Times reports. Meanwhile, school alumni are threatening to pull their financial support unless the situation is rectified. "I am ashamed to be an alumnus of ECHS today," one alum stated.

Data Breakers: The state has agreed to give the Seattle Times and Associated Press access to private student and staff data from 2009 onwards, including individual students’ test scores, grades, school schedules, absences and discipline information. This is alarming privacy experts, who say that even though student names are removed from documents, anonymity isn't a guarantee.

Billionaire Plays Secret Santa on the Internet: Buys cow for stranger.

"It is not a crime in Canada to sell sex for money": Canada's high court has struck down laws prohibiting brothels, communicating in public with clients, and living on the profits of prostitution, deeming them "grossly disproportionate."

7.9 Cents Each: That's the cost on the unregulated data broker market for selling names of domestic violence and rape victims, police officers’ home addresses, and people who suffer from genetic illnesses—private information that could then be used to target, manipulate, or discriminate against swaths of people.

“I was stunned in doing my research when I found lists of people who were rape sufferers, people who were genetic disease suffers, people who were victims of domestic violence,” [World Privacy Forum Executive Director Pam] Dixon admitted. “What is happening is through survey instruments that are operated online and through other methods that are typically consumer generated, people will volunteer this information to websites thinking they are getting help from a website.”

“And they have no idea this information is going to be attached to, not just a cookie, but their name, their home address, their phone number.”

The Sky Is Falling: Yesterday, seventy-six people were injured when parts of the ceiling in London's Apollo theater collapsed during a production. Two people remain hospitalized.

“It’s almost as if the climate and the weather were happening on two different planets”: Analysis shows that 96 percent of weather coverage on network teevee fails to ever mention climate change in conjunction with extreme weather patterns.

What, Did Their Beeper Break? North Korea faxes threats of an attack to South Korea.

And finally, here is a dog having a delightful time in a whole lotta snow: