Wednesday's Links: Conan Celebrates Soda's 11th-Hour Reprieve

* Soda lovers take their victory to the streets.

* It takes a lot of power to get a roller coaster going.

* If all money looked like this, people probably would save more.

* Political dramas are getting too much like real life.

* An alternate reality where Stan Lee and Jack Kirby were Communists.

* Let's have some fun, this beat is sick. I wanna take a ride on your pastoral staff.

* Animals yelling like humans? *Yawn* We've got politicians who yell like animals.

* The Fremont City Council meeting will now come to disorder. [NSFW]

Tags: Catholic Church, Communism, Daily Links, Energy & Oil, England, Howard Dean, Lady Gaga, Money, New York City, Queen Elizabeth II, Rob Delaney, Soda Ban, Vatican O'Brien

Tweet Untweet: Massachusetts Republicants

You know you're watching a commercial for a Republican candidate in MA if the word "Republican" doesn't appear in the commercial.

— STEVE HUFF (@SteveHuff) March 13, 2013

Tags: Massachusetts, Republicans, Tweet Untweet, Twitter

Tuesday's Links: Sound the Bugle for Chavez

* The Bugle says "adios" to George W. Bush's muse.

* Notes from the GOP naming committee meeting.

* What Americans think about the Pope being Jewish.

* Homeland as a role-playing game.

* Someone may be trying to tell Gov. Rick Scott something.

* What is the Cyrus cylinder and why is it important to America?

* This is what it sounds like when Joe Biden tells John Boehner a joke.

Tags: Catholic Church, Daily Links, Funny or Die, Hugo Chavez, Jewish, Jimmy Kimmel, John Oliver, Mitt Romney, Republicans, Rick Scott

Tweet Untweet: Putting Out Conservative Fires

Paul Ryan's new budget unveiled the same day as the papal conclave. Looks like House Republicans and the Vatican will both be blowing smoke.

— Adam Carl (@AdamWearsPants) March 12, 2013

Tags: Catholic Church, Paul Ryan, Republicans, Tweet Untweet, Twitter, Vatican

Tweet Untweet: Paul Ryan's Gun Budget

Paul Ryan's budget is just 47 pictures of him doing push-ups that he handed in "by mistake."

— Chase Mitchell (@ChaseMit) March 12, 2013

Tags: Budget, Paul Ryan, Tweet Untweet, Twitter