Our guest columnist is the Asian American Journalists Association, advising Our Exceptional Nation’s Sportswriters that MSG should only refer to Madison Square Garden.

“CHINK”: Pejorative; do not use in a context involving an Asian person on someone who is Asian American. Extreme care is needed if using the well-trod phrase “chink in the armor”; be mindful that the context does not involve Asia, Asians or Asian Americans. (The appearance of this phrase with regard to Lin led AAJA MediaWatch to issue statement to ESPN, which subsequently disciplined its employees.)

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We don’t know whether the Great State of Arizona actually paid for the two spots that aired during last night’s debate, but they seemed to be more than the home-team freebies we’ve seen before. And while the first commercial started as a distant echo of California’s celebrity-infested travel ads, it ended with a conclusive demonstration of why only movie-star governors can get away with acting like, well, movie stars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3yIOoyhs-I

To be honest, we’ve always been partial to Eeyore, but he wouldn’t last ten seconds in there without Max Sex Appeal.

[via Know Your Meme]

While Rick Santorum isn’t quite the World-Class Serial Liar — Mitt Romney holds that trophy — he’s not above spreading a few frothy half-truths. Consider Monday’s attempt at Holy War, delivered to the good people of Muskegon, Michigan:

“When you have the President of the United States referring to the freedom of religion and you have the Secretary of State referring to the freedom of religion, not as the freedom of religion but the freedom of worship, you should get very nervous, very nervous.”

Wait, what? Aren’t the two interchangeable? Well, not quite:

“Because there’s a lot of tyrants around the world who will talk about freedom of worship, but they won’t talk about freedom of religion. Freedom of worship is what you do within the four walls of the church. Freedom of religion is what you do outside the four walls of the church. What the President is now seeming to mold, in the image of other elitists who think that they know best, is to limit the role of faith in the public square and your role to live that faith out in your public and private lives.”

That’s a pretty subtle distinction, coming from somebody who can’t tell the difference between two dudes, and a dude and a dog. And sure enough, it’s not his.

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For years, Rick Santorum has been known primarily for two things: his titular definition, and his crying daughter. And in the years following his 2006 Senate smackdown, there’s been little reason to know any more.

But now that he’s leading the pack, however transiently, we’re learning that Santorum spreads much wider than we’ve suspected. He’s not just a bigot. He’s not just a bigoted wingnut. He’s not even just a bigoted wingnut fundamentalist.

Rick Santorum is a Holy Warrior.

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The world’s oldest surviving film — all 2.11 seconds of it — was shot in 1888.

Within five years, Thomas Edison built the world’s first movie studio.

It took only a year after that to film the world’s first cat video.

[via The Atlantic]

Our guest columnist is finally able to celebrate his decision to spend a career in journalism.

The Heart Attack Grill in downtown Las Vegas lived up to its name Saturday night, when a customer dining on a “triple bypass burger” suffered an apparent heart attack.

Man suffers heart attack at Heart Attack Grill [FOX5 Vegas]