News organizations like CNN have done an admirable job of recapping the first 100 days of the Obama administration. But rarely do we stumble across a primary source like Barack Obama’s own Facebook feed.
Slate.com takes a look at Obama’s Facebook newsfeed during his first 100 days as president:
Here’s a little traffic tip to our friends in Russia: it’s probably not a good idea to use a 4-way stop to regulate the intersection of two 6-lane highways. The result is no accident. This funny video is from Prospekt Slavy (Glory Avenue) in St. Petersburg, Russia:
Jim Gaffigan talks about his love of bacon in this clip from his brand new stand up special, “King Baby.” It’s amazing how many jokes he has about bacon, and this clip shows only about half of them!
A 5th grader asked her mother the age-old question, “How did I get here?”
Her mother told her, “God sent you.”
“Did God send you, too?” asked the child.
“Yes, Dear,” the mother replied.
“What about Grandma and Grandpa?” the child persisted.
“He sent them also,” the mother said.
“Did he send their parents, too?” asked the child.
“Yes, Dear, He did,” said the mother patiently.
“So you’re telling me that there has been NO sex in this family for 200 years? No wonder everyone’s so darn grouchy around here!”
It seems like everybody these days has a Facebook page. Well, not everybody. In fact, some very important people — who probably have very interesting lives worth exploring on Facebook — are nowhere to be found on the world’s most popular social networking site.
So in the interest of posterity, PC World carefully approximated what those missing Facebook pages might look like. They included both important figures from history and current events.
And some are pretty funny and rude, such as the Facebook page for Microsoft co-founder and former Chairman Bill Gates:
The Cincinnati mayor throws perhaps the worst “first pitch” in baseball history:
