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

Tuesday Links: Vintage Reggie Watts Sings of Science

* Check out this recently unearthed fossil of Reggie Watts on Bill Nye the Science Guy.

* This New Yorker cartoon describes a person we all know.

* Mocking America's counterculture has a long and wonderful history.

* How does one go about becoming a Pope? Watch and learn.

* The Kojo Nimadi Show discusses the state of the Supreme Court.

* What sort of sex nastiness was your favorite president into?

* A gay man is confronted by an anti-gay preacher on the subway and this happens.

* Robots are taking all our jobs, even the fun ones where you get to talk to Fred Armisen.

Tags: Daily Links, Evolution, Funny or Die, Pope Benedict XVI, Science & Technology, Supreme Court, The New Yorker

Pope Benedict Won't Monday-Morning-Pope His Successor

Unlike all the other dudes with Twitter accounts who claim to be authorities on everything, Pope Benedict has some theological justification for his claim on infallibility. Which means Benedict's nearly unprecedented abdication created the possibility of a retired pope second-guessing his successor — "His teachings are sententia fidei proxima, at best!"

Alas, a Vatican production of Two Popes, One Funny Hat is not going to happen:

"These powers go with the office, so they will pass to the next pope… Whoever renounces no longer has the assistance of the Holy Spirit to guide the Universal Church," Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said at a briefing.

Guess it's impossible to disagree with an infallible pope who proclaims himself fallible.

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Tags: Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI, Religion, Vatican

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

Monday Links: Drone Drama

* The Kroll Show dramatizes drones.

* Pope Beyonce? Yes please!

* A list of historical fallacies, from Cracked.

* A little girl hears Bad Brains for the first time.

* Please don't watch this if you're afraid of spiders.

* More George W. Bush selfies have surfaced.

* Maybe if we had fewer guns we'd have cooler fisticuffs.

* Jesse Thorn's new show on NPR looks very promising.

*How to order takeout during a blizzard without being a dick. (Save this one for next time.)

* Teddy Roosevelt had an interesting way of expressing himself.

Tags: Beyonce, Dick Cheney, Drones, Funny or Die, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Guns, Nick Kroll, NPR, Oscars, Pope Benedict XVI, Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan, Spiders, Theodore Roosevelt, Weather