• 2014 Oscar Nominations: Gravity, Hustle Lead with 10 Nominations, Including Best Picture: Did you know that Bob Nelson, who wrote the freshly Oscar nominated screenplay for Nebraska, is from Seattle? And it's his first screenplay. Go Hawks! Here's the complete list of nominees, and a thing on which films got snubbed.

• Elkhart, Indiana, Grocery Store Shooting Leaves Two Women and Gunman Dead: What will it take to stop this madness?

• Widespread Boycotts as Egyptian Voters Back New Constitution: The new constitution gives more power to the military, the police, and the judiciary, and more rights to women and disabled people.

• NYPD Agrees to 'Largest Protest Settlement in History': That's $18 million going to protesters who were wrongly arrested at the 2004 Republican National Convention.

• Three Suspects Arrested After Stabbing at Seattle University: It was a robbery. The victim is apparently doing all right at Harborview.

• Public Hospitals Hope to Attract More Upscale Patients Under Affordable Care Act: There's great care out there at public hospitals, and when insured people use it, it's good for everyone.

• Recent Shakeups at SPD Could Prove to Be Genius—or Disaster: You should read Anna Minard's nuanced post about our troubled police department.

• LGBT Rights May Eclipse Winter Games: As they should.

• NSA: Six Out of 10 Americans Want Reform of Data Collection, Says Poll: Um, what poll? It can't be a legally binding Slog poll because we haven't done one yet. But...