Monday's Links: Patton Oswalt Is No John Edwards

* A Patton Oswalt documentary from Thrash Lab.

* Rapper RiFF RaFF roams around Miami's Art Basel.

* Please teach Jimmy Fallon how to Dougie, FLOTUS!

* Graduates have so many choices nowadays, including becoming Pope.

* Seth MacFarlane was almost killed by Al Qaeda, and other weird Oscar trivia.

* Part two of Neil deGrasse Tyson's StarTalk with Sarah Silverman and Jim Gaffigan.

* Splitsider looks at cultural awkwardness in the Zhou dynasty.

* The First Lady's shoulders were not to be the first lady shoulders shown on Iranian television.

Tags: al Qaeda, California, China, Daily Links, Iran, John Edwards, Miami, Michelle Obama, Patton Oswalt, Seth MacFarlane

Wednesday's Links: An Animated Drone Conversation

* Mark Fiore's new cartoon about Obama's drone justifications.

* Joe Biden must be in the pocket of big shotgun.

* Five countries that are secretly badass.

* "Constitution USA with Peter Sagal" is coming to PBS this spring.

* An award-winning animated short film on how fast Earth spins beneath us.

* Nerd prom host Conan O'Brien's failed coffee table books include a compilation of New Yorker cartoons.

* The Los Angeles Review of Books makes a prediction about Nate Silver. See how it feels, buddy.

Tags: Barack Obama, California, Conan O'Brien, Daily Links, Drones, Guns, Joe Biden, Mark Fiore, Nate Silver, Science & Technology, The New Yorker

Thursday Links: All Panthers Are Black

* For Black History Month, Black superheroes talk about their struggles.

* Jimmy Fallon's "Downton Sixbey."

* Yolo: An oral history of an awful phrase.

* U.S. females need to step up the science.

* Schoolhouse Rock sings about ungrammatical stuff.

* This Sacramento Bee editorial is seriously messing with Texas.

* Twitter has a new hashtag game: #ReplaceSongTitlesWithDrone.

* Conan O'Brien's heckler Eddie Pepitone has Post Office questions.

* A map of all the vaguely or explicitly rude-sounding place names in the world.

* The Post Office's potential for "clandestine communication" was a scary prospect, at one time.

Tags: Black History Month, California, Daily Links, Drones, Education, Geography, Post Office, Racism, Rick Perry, Science & Technology, Taxes, Texas, Women's Rights

Tuesday's Links: Science and Sex with Neil deGrasse Tyson

* Neil deGrasse Tyson talks to Kristin Schaal and Dr. Ruth about sexy science.

* This train guy really loves trains.

* If you don't love meat, you don't love America.

* Walter Cronkite accurately predicts the future.

* Heterosexual couples stick it out for gay rights.

* Conan O'Brien's Produce Bowl pits apple against orange.

* California is… broke, and other unfortunate autocompletes.

* Donald Trump is suing Bill Maher for insinuating he has orangutan blood.

Tags: Barack Obama, Bill Mahr, California, Conan O'Brien, Daily Links, Donald Trump, Dr. Ruth, Guns, Kristin Schaal, LGBT, Marriage Equality, Nazis, Neil, Patriotism, Science & Technology, Sex, The Onion, Walter Cronkite

Tweet Untweet: Schwarzenegger Keeps It Classy

Nothing dignifies politics more than a former Governor doing a shoot-em' up movie with a man who put mousetraps on his scrotum every day.

— Sam Grittner (@SamGrittner) January 7, 2013

Tags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, Tweet Untweet