Friday Links: No More Mr. Nice Gay

* Guy Branum tells homophobic 49ers to go play for Pittsburgh.

* A behind-the-scenes look at Kid President.

* Amazing underground lake in Guilin, China.

* God Made A Factory Farmer, via Funny or Die.

* I could watch gifs made from nature shows all day.

* The inspiring legacy of Teddy Roosevelt's stuffed namesake.

* As George W. Bush already well knows, everybody is a critic.

* A New Yorker article on getting older in America's youth culture.

* If you prick this bionic robot man, does he not bleed WTF HE DOES?!

Tags: China, Downton Abbey, Funny or Die, George W. Bush, God, LGBT, Nazis, Quentin Tarantino, San Francisco, Sara Schaefer, Science & Technology, Sports, Super Bowl, Teddy Roosevelt, The New Yorker, W. Kamau Bell

Chained CPI vs. Django Unchained

Much to the surprise of of those liberal Democrats who have not paid attention to anything the president has done or said over the past four years, the White House may support cuts to Social Security as part of the fiscal cliff negotiations with House Republicans.

Specifically, the administration suggested replacing Social Security's current system of annual cost-of-living benefit increases with an adjustment mechanism that relies on something called a chained Consumer Price Index, or "chained CPI."

Policy experts like the idea because the inflation formula currently used to calculate Social Security benefits fails to take into account substitution effects. That is, when broccoli becomes expensive, Americans spend more of their money on spinach, without necessarily increasing their grocery budget. Just kidding, Americans don't eat vegetables. In fact, it's easier to explain Chained CPI via Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained and let you decide which is more palatable:

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Tags: Barack Obama, Debt, Fiscal Cliff, Movies, Quentin Tarantino, Social Security

Matt Drudge Reviews Quentin Tarantino's New Movie

I don't know if this means he liked it or not.

(A more in-depth review.)

Tags: Matt Drudge, Movies, Quentin Tarantino