Monday evening roundup

Speaking of kitty balls: You have to laugh, because if you don't, all that's left is tragedy/

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The only word that I can use to introduce this book review is um???

Next week, Colbert dares you to take farmerworkers's jobs.

These are priceless words:

West’s comments provide a dramatic real-life example of why actually knowing something, as opposed to theoretically being able to Google it, is so important. Indeed, West indicated that she had just Googled the Arizona law and that the first thing to come up had been a picture of the governor meeting with Barack Obama “in May of 2010,” an image on which she based the rest of her remarks.

And this seems to be the way more and more of us are thinking. Opinion first, information later. But actually knowing things matters for reasons other than not embarrassing yourself in front of YouTube -- it gives you a basis for your opinions and allows you to have debates that consist of more than meaningless shouting.