Tuesday's Links: Happy Birthday, Darwin!

* This isn't creepy at all.

* Darwin: A Graphic Biography.

* Arizona has some weird laws: NSFW.

* The Trumans' story. Perfect Valentine's Day reading.

* A Montana TV station warns everyone about a zombie attack.

* Who said it: Charles Manson or Ted Nugent? Frankly, it's hard to tell.

* President Obama gets some much-needed advice for tonight's SOTU.

* If you haven't gotten enough of the Petraeus scandal, here's a new book.

* You might not want to play golf during a thunderstorm, Pope-for-Now Benedict.

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Tags: Charles Darwin, Charles Manson, Daily Links, David Petraeus, Energy & Oil, Evolution, Harry S. Truman, Montana, Pope Benedict XVI, State of the Union, Valentine's Day, Zombies

Barack Obama's First 50 Days

Barack Obama has hit the 50 day mark and motherfuck if that guy still hasn't made good on his promise to build every single American a house made out of fellatio.

That bit of disappointment aside, Nate Silver looks at how his approval ratings so far match up with other presidents this far in…

Wow, this is really telling. Only two slots below the great George W. Bush. That's pretty badass. On the other hand, he's just one slot above Ronald Regan. Yuck.

Check out JFK all the way up top with a 73 percent approval rating. Now there was a guy who knew how to make a house out of fellatio.

Delicious fellatio.

Tags: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Dwight Eisenhower, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Harry S. Truman, Jimmy Carter, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan

Third-Party Poopers: Strom Thurmond and the Dixiecrat Party

Dixiecrat is a combination of the words "Dixie" and "Democrat," meaning "racist skeetbag." It was on the Dixiecrat ticket that South Carolina Governor Strom Thurmond launched his 1948 third-party campaign for President, with racial segregation, Jim Crow laws and "states' rights" as the main planks in his platform.

Thurmond and many other Southerners split from the Democratic Party when the organization decided to start treating black people like people. Although Thurmond took five states

Tags: Democrats, Harry S. Truman, Strom Thurmond, Third-Party Poopers