“You get nothing. I get that for free.”

-Barack Obama, to Speaker of the House John Boehner

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Title: “TIME for Kids BIG Book of Why: 1,001 Facts Kids Want to Know”

Authors: Editors of Time for Kids Magazine

Rank: 93

Blurb: “Kids will be desperate to share what they’ve learned with their parents, teachers, and friends… and anyone else who will listen.”

Most Helpful Favorable Review: “I enjoyed reading this book with my grandson and we both learned some new things.”

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It’s Flo, the Christmas Boxer! She’s coming home tomorrow.

(After a week like we the one we just had I thought we could stand to look at something that doesn’t give press conferences then flounce off into the night. And when she shits on the floor it won’t require congress to agree to the clean-up)

Gangnam Style hits one billion views, Google adds a dancing animation to the hit count, we tremble in abject fear.

[via David Chartier / Tumblr]

Remarks from the NRA press conference on Sandy Hook school shooting [WaPo]

• Moon crashes into Earth: 1,000,000:1
• Ring of Fire erupts simultaneously: 1,000,000:1
• Downton Abbey canceled: 500:1

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So there’s this facility known as the “Y-12 National Security Complex” in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, which “maintains the safety, security and effectiveness of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile”. We know this because they say so, on the same page where they show a handsome soldier vigilantly guarding our nukes.

Not shown: The hole in the fence.

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