While nojo is correct in pointing out that Americans like to blow things up, so does my favorite Brit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI2MpcIiO6A

Heading to the AFC playoffs …

For Benedick (if this doesn’t turn you into a Jets fan, I give up):

This play is the one we Jets fans will be thinking of today at 4:30 when the division game against the Patriots kicks off – from Week 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6ZhoMoNesQ

This run in last week’s game against the Saints is part of what gives Seahawks fans hope for victory against the Bears today at 1 pm.  Pretty amazing run:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQULIUXZst8

Did not know that brainwashed Texas schoolchildren applauded when JFK was killed:

via Instaputz:

For as long as I can remember, I have heard conservatives blaming everything that is wrong in the universe, from violent crime to declining test scores to teen pregnancy to rude children to declining patriotism to probably athlete’s foot . . . upon Dr. Spock, Hollywood liberals, the abolition of prayer in school, Bill Clinton, the “liberal 1960s,” the teaching of evolution — in other words, upon symbols, rhetoric, cultural norms, and the values expressed by political and media leaders. Yet from the moment when someone gets a gun in their hands, apparently, society ceases to have any influence whatsoever on the outcome and individual responsibility takes hold 100%. Something is driving the tripling of death threats against congressmen (and the concomitant rise in threats against Federal judges and other villains of the right, from Forest Service rangers to climate scientists) and it isn’t the sunspot cycle.

But you should read, as they say, the whole thing.