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

Tweet Untweet: He Can't Hear You

Somebody should tell her.RT @sarahpalinusaHappy birthday, President Reagan!

— Danny Zuker (@DannyZuker) February 6, 2013

Tags: Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin, Tweet Untweet, Twitter

How to Celebrate Ronald Reagan's Birthday

It's the 102nd birthday of American saint Ronald Reagan, and while few of us can compare to the Great Communicator, there are still plenty of Reaganesque ways to celebrate this special day.

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Tags: Movies, Music, Ronald Reagan

Thursday's Links: Dummies for Science

* A documentary about science and being not smart.

* Bo Obama has important duties too.

* Molly McAleer found this portrait of Bill Clinton and his favorite food.

* Why we took cocaine out of soda, from The Atlantic.

* Twelve drunk texts from history.

* Some idiot took his dog to the pound because "it was gay."

* A few days before his son Michael got married, Ronald Reagan sent him this letter of advice.

* Conan O'Brien's prop master shows us how to do the Super Bowl on the cheap.

* The best 30 Rock quotes. ps. If you DVR the finale tonight, be sure to add extra time–word is there's something worth watching in the tag.

Tags: Bo Obama, Cocaine, Conan O'Brien, Daily Links, Funny or Die, Hollywood, LGBT, Michael Reagan, Nancy Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Science & Technology, The Atlantic, White House

Tuesday Links: The Frank Zappa School of Economics

* Frank Zappa jams out on his love of capitalism.

* You'll watch this once, and then twenty more times today.

* Lincoln's second inaugural ball had a menu to fight over.

* Watch what happens when you heat mercury thiocyanate.

* The Current and John Moe discuss the Death Star petition.

* Rex Huppke has solutions for the looming debt ceiling crisis.

* If a tree falls in the forest and no one's around, these kids get an F.

* Governor Rick Scott abandoned Reagan just when he needed him most.

* The children of Newtown sing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" for their town.

Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama, Daily Links, Economy, Inauguration, Rick Scott, Ronald Reagan, Science & Technology, Unions, White House