Earth’s moon will seem bigger Saturday night than it has since 1993. It’ll still be the same size as usual, however.

Simplest possible NCAA Tournament bracket

Ru Paul for President 2012 bumper sticker

Comedian Gilbert Gottfried is the latest idiot celebrity to damage their career on Twitter.

If the Republicans need their own Bill Clinton, how about Mark Sanford?

Watch this video, then watch the big bucks roll in: POLITICAL QUICKIE: How To Be A Media Pundit from Xeth Feinberg on Vimeo. H/T: The Pajama Pundit

This video “Teachers Unions Explained” isn’t particularly fair but it’s nonetheless amusing.

A Welcome to Wisconsin sign with another sign saying “A Division of Koch Industries” is going around Twitter.

The peculiar habit of some Indo-Europeans of assigning gender to nouns is frustrating and amusing.

Our roving correspondent Richard Gardner forwarded me this clip from “Portlandia,” a series of which I’d never heard, on IFC, of which I’d also never heard, starring Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein. The “Is it local?” bit is fairly amusing:

A quick note: my Mark Levin blogging will continue this week. I got sidetracked by a few other things, but I should be back on track now.

Washington Wire: “I hope today, all of you feel free to make yourselves at home. For those of you with a particular interest in the next election, I don’t mean that literally.” — President Barack Obama, welcoming governors to the White House. A moment later, he gestured toward Mississippi’s GOP Gov. Haley Barbour and the [...]

From last night’s Jimmy Kimmel: click (embed not available)

I’d think twice

Looking at the Republican field for 2012, I'm more than a little disheartened that the most prudent and fiscally conservative contender for the Republican nomination is Mitch Daniels. The same Mitch Daniels who, as director of OMB, oversaw a federal budget that went from a $236 billion suprlus to a $400 billion deficit. The same [...]

This made me laugh out loud: At a press conference Monday, visibly embarrassed leaders of the Republican National Committee acknowledged that their nonstop, effusive praise of Ronald Reagan has been wholly unintentional, admitting they somehow managed to confuse him with Dwight D. Eisenhower for years. The GOP’s humiliating blunder was discovered last weekend by RNC [...]

“My preference, I suppose, would be for parliamentary leaders to actually physically whip members of congress into line (willingness to withstand lashing being a decent proxy for preference-intensity) but barring that the House’s tradition of iron-fisted rule-based discipline is a great model.” – Matthew Ygelsias

“Could you please go shopping for me and buy one carton of milk, and if they have eggs, get 6!” A short time later the husband comes back with 6 cartons of milk. The wife asks him, “Why the hell did you buy 6 cartons of milk?” He replied, “They had eggs.”

Amusing: via Joshua Foust

Mashup of White House spokesman Robert Gibbs telling reporters what jobs he’s never held

“After the election, I sat down with my consultants, and their names were John Walker, James Beam and Jose Cuervo, my Hispanic consultant. When I finished with them I was done with that consultation.” – Florida Democratic chairman Rod Smith, declining to be specific in assessing his party’s shellacking in the recent gubernatorial elections. via Taegan Goddard

“I couldn’t be happier with the ambassador’s service, and I’m sure he will be very successful in whatever endeavors he chooses in the future. And I’m sure that him having worked so well with me will be a great asset in any Republican primary.” – President Obama, commenting on rumors that Jon Huntsman will leave [...]

Last night’s SNL cold open was a parody of Michelle Bachmann’s Tea Party response to the State of the Union:

Some constructive criticism from Andrew Exum.

About right: Via Stephen Green, who titles it “Close Enough for Jazz.” It’s apparently been around a while, since the site referenced in the bottom corner has been “on hiatus” since August 2008. UPDATE:  It’s worth noting that variations of this idea have been around forever.  There was one years ago called  ”The World According [...]

Amy Chua captured the two things we fear most: the Chinese and our children.

For those of you who are going to subject yourselves to the Speech From The Throne State of the Union tonight, here’s a guide to the only way to both pass the time, and make the experience bearable. First, Stephen Richer at Frum Forum lists his picks for the best: 1)  Esquire – The state [...]

John Galt’s speech in Atlas Shrugged, summarized and translated. Cracked me up.

The Beast has released its The 50 Most Loathsome Americans of 2010, which I gather is supposed to be amusing rather than taken seriously.

Dear Doug: I was a big supporter of James’ suggestion to add you to OTB. I’ve enjoyed your work here enormously. That said, I have to express some concern about the sheer number of posts you’ve written about a certain reality TV star from the Great White North. I am afraid that if you’re not [...]

Comedienne Joan Rivers tells Howard Stern why she ditched a joke calling Michelle Obama “Backie O.”

Greg Mankiw has a plan for cutting the deficit.

This video of a woman falling into a fountain while texting on her cell phone is making the rounds today:

UQ’s Thoreau makes a compelling point: “Usually people blame the 2nd amendment for a mass shooting. This time they’re blaming the 1st. But why not all the others?”

This Jimmy Kimmel Show spoof, “Josh Groban Sings Kanye West Tweets,” is making the rounds: This is a less funny variation of an ancient Steve Allen bit wherein he recited popular music lyrics as poetry.

Dave Barry wraps up the year just passed: Let’s put things into perspective: 2010 was not the worst year ever. There have been MUCH worse years. For example, toward the end of the Cretaceous Period, Earth was struck by an asteroid that wiped out about 75 percent of all of the species on the planet. [...]

Is Jon Stewart the next Edward R. Murrow? No.

A Christmas tree tweets.

From science fiction writer John Scalzi, this may be the funniest Christmas story ever: Joe comes in and asks for a room, and I tell him we’re all out of rooms and have been for months. Foot races. Theater groupies. And such. And he says, come on, please. I’ve got a pregnant lady with me. [...]

CTU agent Jack Bauer confronts the mastermind behind the greatest invasion of American airspace ever: H/T: Hot Air

From Conan O’Brien: Merry Christmas? You betcha!

Two Ohio congressional districts are taking their talents to South Beach.

“You can take some liberties in a movie inspired by actual people and events, but having Ralph Reed convert to Christianity would probably be more than any audience would be willing to believe.” – Fred Clark, in his review of Casino Jack

Kevin Drum notes that the current issue of National Review features both an editorial arguing against the individual health insurance mandate because it forces people “to buy a product they would not buy on a free market” and an article arguing that Social Security be replaced with a system “requiring individuals to contribute a reasonable [...]

Andrew Sullivan has just released The Cannabis Closet, the second in a series of books produced entirely from reader emails to the Daily Dish. Granting that Andrew’s been doing this a couple years longer than I have and has approximately a million times the readership, I can’t help but be disappointed in my commenters. Seriously, can’t you [...]

Gerard Van der Leun passes on a professorial rant entitled “Why You Got A ‘C’” that’s likely to be amusing primarily to those who have taught undergraduates.

Don Surber imagines this edition of “Hardball.”

The Julian Assange case makes Sweden look like a country that’s governed by congenital idiots and populated with nothing but crazy sluts and lawyers.