The state of the hot takes is garb

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— yuri victor ♥ (@yurivictor) January 21, 2015

Let's get that burn out of the way.

If you watched the State of the Union last night without bingo cards you were doing it wrong.
After all, hot garbage site Gawker said (intelligently!) that the state of the union speeches is garbage. Columbia Journalism Review even asks, "Should journalists care about the State of the Union address?"

Well, it was tweeted, redditted, annotated and emoji-ed, and some of those aren't even real words, so there you go.

All I wanted to know was, what was that thing next to orange House Speaker John Boehner?

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Right out of the oven: Ben Dreyfuss says Obama is out of ducks, with an F, because he read 'The Suble Art of Not Giving a F***."  This is a family newspaperblog and/or newsletter so we can't say 'fucks,' c'mon now.

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The Oatmeal has an Exploding Kittens card game on Kickstarter that was funded within 20 minutes. But Mr. Oats doesn't really need Kickstater. He once sent a troll lawyer a photo of money he had raised spelling 'FU.' I already met my four-letter-words quota so you're left to decipher that.

Anyway, that card game prompted this winning CNN lede: "It's like UNO, except there are goats, magical enchiladas and kittens that can kill you." Yep. Just like UNO.

All this needs bacon, obviously:


Facebook says it's taking out the hoax garb showing up on Facebook. Sure thing, brah.

One hot cat: Exploding Kittens, obvs.

HOLY NUCLEAR KITTENS….ONE MILLION DOLLARS!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU https://t.co/KmBrvKKWgu pic.twitter.com/2bctGnbj96
— Exploding Kittens (@gameofkittens) January 21, 2015

One hot Google Glass photo:

Yesterday's Internet, Today! is a hot take in which I throw in a bunch of links I tweeted, faved or saw the day before or in the morning. You also get a cat and a Google Glass photo.

State of the Union 2015 bingo: FACE BINGO edition

Every year, news organizations spend many resources creating very useful State of the Union bingo cards so that you can watch and not really pay attention to what's being said and/or clapped or tsk tsk'ed.

This year is no different.

I guess that beats the drinking games.

Anyway! I made my own because of course I did.

Here's hoping Boehner cries.

3 games to play during the State of the Union

Mean Obama wants to make John Boehner cry

This is all in the spirit of fun and games, since no serious news organization would ever spend precious time or resources examining the crying by Speaker of the House John Boehner, right?

WRONG!!

And here's the rest of the State of the Salmon address. Wait, whaaa?

State of the Union, the slideshow

2011 Enhanced State of the Union Address Graphics

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Hudson Valley tweeple react to State of the Union: Salmon! Boehner almost cried! Al Franken!

State of the Union excerpts, word cloud

I'll update the cloud with the final speech for comparison purposes.

Excerpts from the State of the Union Address 2011

Here's the full text.

And here's the word cloud for that:

President Obama delivers the State of the Union Address