Weekend link dump for February 10

There needs to be a constitutional right to vote.

So how do owls twist their heads so far around, anyway?

From the Don’t Criticize What You Don’t Understand department.

Now this is how you deal with an obnoxious troll.

When was the last time you saw the Shakespeare insult generator? Well, that’s too long.

On the double standard that baseball faces over PEDs.

You can’t stop the marketing. You can only hope to contain it.

The lights-out delay at the Superdome wasn’t what swung momentum towards the 49ers.

We already have “White History Month” – more than one of them, in fact.

RIP, Andre Cassagnes, inventor of the Etch-A-Sketch.

Meet the new GOP, same as the old GOP.

The background on that “God made a farmer” ad, which by the way completely ignored the reality of modern day farming.

Spending time in prison leads to increased criminal earnings. So in that sense, crime does pay.

FedEx still has more bandwidth than the Internet. For now, anyway.

The comics syndication business is weirder than I would have thought.

Democratizing encryption will be a mostly good thing. See here for more.

It wasn’t scarlet fever that caused Mary Ingalls’ blindness.

I think any time you can use the word “fart” to describe something Rick Perry has done, you should.

When Olivia was little and we were out together, I’d take her into the men’s room when she needed to go potty. Around the time she turned four, she refused to do that any more and insisted on using the ladies’ room by herself. That meant that I’d have to wait outside the ladies’ room and try not to look like a pervert, and it occasionally meant I had to push the door open for her when she was done because it was too heavy for her to open by herself, but it made her happy to be independent. I tell you that story because it’s what went through my head as I read this. I am utterly speechless.

Why GoDaddy doesn’t care what you thought of their Super Bowl ads.

The Postal Service bypasses Congress in its Saturday delivery decision.

“Pubic hair grooming injuries jumped five-fold between 2002 and 2010, according to a recent analysis of ER visits by scientists at the University of California, San Francisco.” And “Those figures are likely a vast underestimate of the true injuries, and a reminder, among other things, of the need for extra care when wielding razors or hot wax.” I got nothing.

I truly hope Megan and Grace find a way to do good, like they’ve always wanted to do.

If it walks like a hater, talks like a hater, and hates like a hater, it’s probably a hater.

Hide the silverware, California.

“So praying for the victims of tragedy with other members of the community is forbidden. But interfaith coalitions are just fine when it comes to kicking LGBT people.”

#AstrosMovies is pretty funny. “O Brother Where Art Howe?” is my favorite.

Latinos strongly support access to birth control.

Clearly, the problem is that Germany has been stealing our sunshine.

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