It’s looking very likely that we’ll have to live with this the next six years. Tune in tonight at 7pm ET for our Election Night Open Thread/Clone Wars and find out!

Our little Taiwanese animator friends nail the Yellow Peril Casting Call commercial. We, for one, welcome our new Panda Overlords.

[via Fallows]

“I have another question, the most popular name in the United Kingdom, Great Britain, this was in the news this week, was Mohammed. Am I a racist to feel that I’m alarmed by that? Because I am. And it’s not because of the race, it’s ’cause of the religion. I don’t have to apologize, do I, for not wanting the Western world to be taken over by Islam in 300 years?” [ThinkProgress]

“Last weekend, a computer glitch took 50 U.S. nuclear missiles offline for more than 45 minutes at a Wyoming Air Force base. The military says it still could have launched the weapons had it needed to, and there’s no evidence of foul play.” [Yahoo]

The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg requests a pat-down instead of a body scan from a TSA agent at the airport, and learns he might soon prefer the other option:

“Yes, but starting tomorrow, we’re going to start searching your crotchal area” — this is the word he used, “crotchal” — “and you’re not going to like it.”

“What am I not going to like?” I asked.

“We have to search up your thighs and between your legs until we meet resistance,” he explained.

“Resistance?” I asked.

“Your testicles,” he explained.

Later, on board, all the dudes swear he didn’t make it past the knees.

For the First Time, the TSA Meets Resistance [Atlantic]

• Doom: 1:1
• Pestilence: 1:1
• Cannibal Anarchy: 1:1

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Title: “Life”

Author: Keith Richards

Rank: 1

Blurb: “Keith Richards was born in London in 1943.”

Review: “If you criticize Mick to him, he’ll slit your throat.”

Customers Also Bought: “Decision Points”, by George W. Bush

Footnote: Sixty-fucking-seven in December. Everybody lost that office pool.

Life [Amazon]

Buy or Die [Stinque@Amazon kickback link]