The beer bong granny, economics, and more

None of the following merit their own post, but they're worth clicking through.

• More updated links on the right. They incorporate our recent fixation with college football blogs. I also attempt to make our retardation respectable by linking to various University of Chicago economists, the utility of which is dubious.
  
• Our friend David Enders must have nine lives. Check out the latest. It's always good to see the diminutive hipster war reporter safely back in New York. We'll do our best to discourage him from making that February trip to Iraq; he won't listen.
  
• Speaking of friends, enjoy Kleinbaum.org. True, he lifted two of his first three posts from my e-mails, but they weren't original to me anyway.
• The blogger formerly known as spinachdip offers a cogent analysis of Ford's policy toward gay-targeted advertising. I've read a lot of foaming-at-the-mouth blog posts about the subject, but this one provides a thoughtful, reasonable take.
• Last night's Daily Show segment about Fox News's "war on Christmas" omitted my favorite incident: Bill O'Reilly threatening to "bring horror" to anyone who won't fucking celebrate Christmas, goddamn them to hell.
  
• Hillary Clinton sickens me as much as O'Reilly. Would she be a worse president than Bush? I hope we never know.
• Finally...
  

83-year-old Frances Levine is the world's awesomest grandma. The Michigan Daily explains why.