Just about the time we were ready to do some intensive research on a hilarious post about a new online wingnut game, we got distracted by the most awesomely wrong opening ceremony in Olympic history.

Well, except Berlin, of course.

If you weren’t there for Vancouver FailFest 2010 last night, we weep for your grandchildren, forever denied the story of how you survived it.

Dear gawd, we should have run with this Wednesday or Thursday, before it got out of hand…

But we didn’t, so let’s take it from the top.

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Why send flowers for Valentine’s Day when you can send talking disembodied arms?

This is Your Hug: Hug-E-Gram [Videogum, via Sully]

We’ve been ignoring the Dimwit News out of Texas all week, but it just keeps coming, so let’s share…

• The photo above is from Sunday’s Rick Perry rally, featuring Sarah Palin and Ted Nugent. Everyone got a chuckle when the Houston Press published it, but now Perry opponent (and former Demrat Houston mayor) Bill White has posted it on his Facebook page. [via SFL]

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At 8:25 a.m. Wednesday, the geek-news website ReadWriteWeb posted an article about a new industry partnership, titling it “Facebook Wants to Be Your One True Login”.

That’s when the trouble began.

9:12 a.m. “Ok If I have to I will comment,I love facebook so right now just want to log in if thats ok with you..lol Keep up the good work…”

9:39 a.m. “ok cool now can I get to facebook”

9:47 a.m. “The new facebook sucks> NOW LET ME IN.”

9:53 a.m. “when can we log in?”

9:54 a.m. “I WANT THE OLD FAFEBOOK BACK THIS SHIT IS WACK!!!!!”

It goes on. And on. And on. Comment after comment, people complaining that they can’t log into Facebook.

Why? Because they thought the ReadWriteWeb post was Facebook. Seriously. No fucking shit.

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We’re not trying to cop the Daily News in every post this week — we’re just having a hard time avoiding it:

The Riverside Press-Enterprise quoted Fiorina saying, “Whether that is the right approach now, I don’t know. I think bankruptcy, as a possibility, at the very least focuses the mind on what has to be done to salvage a situation.”

When asked by The Bee on Wednesday whether she knew states couldn’t declare bankruptcy, Fiorina answered, “Sure, I knew, but what cold comfort is that to all these California voters who may not know that technicality but who are sitting here knowing that by any common-sense definition, this state can’t pay its bills.”

Actually, the proper move for the disgraced ex-CEO of HP would be to overpay for Arizona and then declare bankruptcy.

Fiorina: California’s inability to declare bankruptcy a ‘technicality’ [SacBee, via TPM]

Chris Cillizza, Tuesday:

Sarah Palin’s soundbite strategy

From a raw political perspective, Palin’s soundbite strategy is extremely effective — handing her supporters a single line (or two) around which to rally in opposition to the President’s agenda…

The simple fact of politics is that the party — or candidate — with the best soundbites (or slogans) often wins.

Chris Cillizza, Thursday:

The Sarah Palin Surge (and why it’s overblown)

A gift for soundbites is a great skill to have but in the course of a long campaign — and that is assuredly what 2012 will be — Palin will have to show her ability to not only be conversant on the issues of the day but also forward-looking in terms of where she wants to take the country.

Yes, yes, he hedges both columns — but if he had run with the gist of Thursday’s column on Tuesday, he might have demonstrated genuine insight instead of play-of-the-day hackishness.