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Being an Alien Spy, we skipped the Super Bowl as usual, in favor of administering anal probes to Republican presidential candidates. (Our report to our superiors indicates that this method is losing its effectiveness, seeing as they all seem to enjoy it, especially Newt.) But judging from our Twitter feed, the highlight of the presentation was this automobile commercial shilled by America’s Second-Greatest Chimpanzee Co-Star.

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We bitch about the rain, we bitch about the Ducks, we bitch about Animal House — all of which, as a native Eugenean Oregonian in Sandy Eggian Exile, is our birthright. But every once in awhile, something comes along to remind us of the Eugene we loved, the Eugene where everybody wears socks with their Birks without thinking twice.

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We haven’t read Game Change — as a rule, we only buy campaign books by Hunter S. Thompson — but as we recall, it was reviewed as Politico Whacking Material, chock full of breathless unsourced gossip that left you knowing less at the end than when it began.

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There’s not much to say about a primary election that met expectations and validated the campaign narrative. So we’ll let nuked household goods say it for us.

[via Know Your Meme]

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Kermit and Miss Piggy, in London to promote the UK premiere of their new movie, address the Fox-fueled Controversy! that said film is trying to “brainwash your kids” against capitalism. It’s not quite on par with Dan Quayle taking on Murphy Brown in the Picking Fights With Fictional Characters Sweepstakes, but only because Fox’s Eric Bolling is not a sitting Vice Preznident of These United States.

[via Media Matters]

Being Our Age, one of the things we remember from Our Youth was the annual Bob Hope USO Show. Whatever you think of Bob Hope’s politics — we weren’t aware of them at the time — the USO Show was unabashedly a Good Thing, bringing entertainment to Our Beleaguered Boys in Vietnam, none of whom was Newt Gingrich or Mitt Romney.

That war is long past, but the USO endures — not just with high-profile events like Stephen Colbert’s week in Baghdad, but visits to the troops from folks you’ve probably never of. Comedian Graham Elwood is one of those folks, and in a recent podcast chat with Chris Hardwick, Elwood describes the practicalities of doing stand-up in war zones. You don’t just work blue, for example — you go full on fucking indigo. But Elwood steers a wide berth from one subject:

“I’m fairly liberal in a lot my politics, but I was like, ‘They don’t need to hear this shit — they’re living it…’ They’re living the result of politics.”

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To our taste, it was a draw — a very entertaining draw — but the consensus among the Chatterers seems to be that last night’s debate was a resounding victory for the International Man of Mysterious Swiss Bank Accounts. And why not? Newt needed a blowout win — in practical terms, a YouTube Moment — and that was not forthcoming. So, with the polls now trending in Mitt’s direction, tie goes to the frontrunner.

In which case, time to unload a photo we’ve been sitting on all week. In it, we see Mitt Romney enjoying a private moment with the members of his Blind Trust.

[via @anamariecox]