According to recent research, pigs can be optimists or pessimists, depending on personality and mood. (I’m guessing the smell of bacon is a key pessimism indicator.)

+ Post-truth named word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries.

+ This is a local story. But all of us can relate: They finally arrested the airhorn guy of El Segundo.

+ Bob Dylan will not attend the Nobel Prize ceremony. (No word on whether he’ll send a representative to mumble unintelligibly on his behalf…)