Friday's Links: Neil deGrasse Tyson on Thor

* Neil deGrasse Tyson knows everything about Gods, too.

* Friday is a great day to watch goats yelling like people.

* Inside the military strategy of The Empire Strikes Back.

* An argument for naturalization, from our own River Clegg.

* Universal health care and their Parliament debates zombies?

* Fictional presidents that actually sound pretty good nowadays.

* Jeopardy boss and funny person Ken Jenning's weekly news quiz.

* The Dana Gould Hour has two Boston guys talking politics (not Affleck and Damon).

Tags: Boston, Canada, Daily Links, Immigration, Military, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Slate, Star Wars, Thor, Zombies

Thursday Links: Neil deGrasse Tyson Gets Curious

* Sarah Silverman and Jim Gaffigan talk space with Neil deGrasse Tyson.

* The Petraeus Files: All the Photos, Chats, Poems, and Other Super-Secret Emails They Don't Want You to See, by Ted Travelstead, for your Kindle.

* A new idea in energy that lives off the grid.

* A visual guide to President Obama analogies.

* The Onion sits down with a terrorism grant winner.

* It's comedian Todd Glass's one year coming-out party.

* Dan Deacon reminds us what America looks like.

* When to tell your sex partner about your Civil War figurines.

* Congratulations to Donald Trump for exposing everyone's hatred of him.

Tags: Civil War, Daily Links, David Petraeus, Donald Trump, Energy & Oil, John Boehner, LGBT, NASA, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Sarah Silverman, Terrorism, The New York Times, The Onion, Todd Glass

Our Endorsements: NASA Gets Nerdier

* Star Talk with Neil deGrasse Tyson premiers on the Nerdist Channel.

* The unbelievable story of Paul Ryan.

* The two-faced Mitt Romney sandwich.

* Your guide to Obama conspiracy theories.

* Debate re-re-re-re-remix. *record scratch*

* GOP strategists want to change the subjects.

* Ever had a bumper sticker you didn't regret?

* Looks like School House Rock landed on Uncle Sam.

* The Onion is going to take you right into the Eurozone.

* Barack Obama is calling, girl. Better pick up the phone.

* Who is the best fake president? Hint: Not George W. Bush.

* Mitt Romney saved the auto industry with a piece of gun and a paperclip.

Tags: Daily Links, Europe, George Bush, Mitt Romney, NASA, Neil deGrasse Tyson, The Onion, Tweet Untweet, Twitter, Wonkette

Bill O'Reilly Proves Existence of God, Stephen Colbert Proves Neil deGrasse Tyson Is God

People are always wondering why the Founding Fathers were so opposed to science being taught in schools. This clip goes a long way toward explaining it. You see, if your brain is all busy a'thinkin' and a'wondrin' about ties and moons and oceans and stuff, it's probably not busy silently reciting the Pledge of Allegiance over and over again. And that breeds liberalism…

"There must be a god, because I don't know how things work." – The Philosophical Teachings of St. Bill O'Reilly

The Colbert Report airs Monday through Thursday at 11:30pm / 10:30c.

Tags: Atheists, Bill O'Reilly, Christianity, Fox, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Religion, Science & Technology

Neil deGrasse Tyson on Why We Should Be Wasting More Money on Stupid, Useless Junk Like Science

I was gonna write a post about how Michele Bachmann has discovered who's really responsible for teabaggers' racist/homophobic behavior (Hint: It's Nancy Pelosi, obviously), but then I started thinking that maybe I've been hurting your brain with all the smart smartness I've been posting today. So, I decided that I should really give your brain a rest, and post this clip of Neil deGrasse Tyson explaining what about NASA means for our country's future and why funding it is probably almost certainly for sure not a waste a money…

That felt good, huh? Okay, now back to more intellectual endeavors, like Sarah Palin's TV special and how it was just as good as everybody thought it would be.

Tags: Fox, House of Representatives, Michele Bachmann, Money, Nancy Pelosi, NASA, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Racism, Sarah Palin, Science & Technology, Tea Party