Monday's Links: SNL's Hot Sequester Cuts Cold Open

* Saturday Night Live explains the budget cuts with disco.

* It probably took a village to build Abraham Lincoln's log cabin.

* John Oliver's "The Bugle" podcast covers Mali, the Pope and Mars.

* The next time John Boehner gets mouthy, Joe Biden should pull this prank.

* The Suffrage Parade of 1913 is 100 years old today and still looks amazing.

* "Bill Clinton is a red blooded American. He likes guns, burgers, and women."

* The great new idea to shout at people online who have different opinions than you do.

* A hidden camera show goes to Texas to see how a red state stands up to intolerance.

* NASA brags about how it has the largest indoor pool in the world. Suck it, Donald Trump!

Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Budget, Daily Links, John Oliver, LGBT, Marriage Equality, NASA, Pope Benedict XVI, Sequester, Texas, Women's Rights

Tweet Roundup: Threat Level Woodward

The fact that some people are using the term "Woodwardgate" may very well cause a tear in the ironic space-time continuum.

— Mike Glenn (@mrglenn) February 28, 2013

White House also warned Bob Woodward he would regret liveTweeting for The Onion on Oscar night.

— Lizz Winstead (@lizzwinstead) February 28, 2013

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Tags: Barack Obama, Bob Woodward, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, NASA, Richard Nixon, Tweet Roundup, Twitter, White House

Monday Links: Jimmy Fallon Loves Presidents' Day

* Jimmy Fallon wrote a song for everyone who has the day off.

* Funny or Die honors all our black presidents.

* Mother Jones' Presidents' Day playlist rules.

* These people are like our step-presidents.

* Why should anyone care about Presidents' Day?

* A profile of George Washington's presidential reluctance.

* The Complete Guide to Everything podcast discusses meteors.

* Dictators need to learn they can't rule Photoshop with an iron fist.

* Ian Frazier shines some light on the mystery of Richard III's bones.

Tags: Barack Obama, Dictators, Funny or Die, George Washington, Jimmy Fallon, Meteor, NASA, Photoshop, President's Day, Space

Russian Meteorite Eerily Similar to Deep Impact Scenario [VIDEO]

The good news is that, for a few seconds at least, Vladimir Putin was only the second-most terrifying thing in Russia. Via Russia Today, we have this incredible video of a meteorite that crashed near the Ural mountains hours ago.

While this meteorite strike didn't do any serious damage, it's also a nice reminder that capital gains tax cuts and deficit reduction aren't going to save us from an indifferent universe. We should probably give NASA the funding it needs to track potentially dangerous asteroids (and come up with ways to mitigate the threat), because let's not kid ourselves: between these events in Russia and the fact that we have a black president, we're tempting fate with a Deep Impact scenario.

And that movie was terrible.

Tags: NASA, Natural Disasters, Russia, Space

Wednesday's Links: Conan O'Brien Goes Solar

* There's no such thing as bad publicity. Just ask Solyndra.

* Sixty-two years of global warming in 13 seconds is scary.

* Zero-G fingernail clipping is not an X Games event.

* The son on Homeland is not going to turn out well.

* The BBC is looking for a few good transgender roles.

* Polaroid pictures of President Obama's inauguration.

* The Queen's castle guards shouldn't have to yell this twice.

* This creationist obviously didn't pay attention in biology class.

* A swell new magazine from music writer Maura Johnston–it fits in your pocket!

Tags: Barack Obama, Charles Darwin, Climate Change, Conan O'Brien, Creationism, Daily Links, England, Inauguration, LGBT, Louisiana, NASA, Queen Elizabeth II, Religion, Science & Technology, Solyndra, Terrorism, The New York Times, The Onion