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Al Jazeera - Britain Does Austerity So The US Doesn't Have To.

Stephen Colbert's address to the Time 100 Most Influential People:

Also, Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke is here tonight. Also an instant, instant feminist icon. Famously tested, testified before Congress, that Georgetown, a Catholic institution,should be required to provide insurance coverage for her birth control.

Now, TIME 100 honoree, his eminence Timothy Cardinal Dolan disagrees -- sir, lovely to see you again.

Of course, now some, some critics have said in response to this that if the Catholic church's insurance does not cover Sandra Fluke's birth control, it shouldn't cover Cardinal Dolan's Viagra.

Oh, no, no, no. Oh, no, no, no, that's called celibacy plus. That's how the pros do it. Because chastity is one thing, but it shows true commitment to uphold your vows when you are sporting a crook you could hang a miter on. Oh, wow, see you at mass on Sunday, sir?

Dumbness in Games, or, the Animal as a System:

One of those games centered around shooting aliens with guns and lasers. Another was about navigating an environment and punching people until they died.

The very second you try to wrap actions like those in a “good story” that does not somehow address what happens during the mechanical part of the experience is the second you fail to write a good story.

In exciting tax lawsuit news, Group challenges tax-exempt status of bishop who compared Obama to Hitler, Stalin.

In Things I Should Have Read Over A Year Ago, Beware of Greeks Bearing Bonds by Michael Lewis. It's long but so worth it, especially if you want to know anything about why the Euro is a terrible thing that does not work.

In stuff you already knew: 1 in 2 new graduates are jobless or underemployed. Related, xkcd.

In MGS IRL, Kodak Had a Secret Nuclear Reactor Loaded With Weapons-Grade Uranium Hidden In a Basement. My favourite part is how much less scrutiny private corporations receive than sovereign governments when they want to secretly stockpile nuclear fuel.