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Quickhits for Jan. 22, 2015

Elephant in the room


If your party’s official response to the State of the Union address starts with a refusal to respond to the speech, then you might want to rethink your — say it with me — response. Also, if your respondent is otherwise best known for pig castration-based campaign ads, you might want to look elsewhere.

Mic drop


If we had to a pick a word to describe Tuesday’s State of the Union address, it would be “swagger.” Obama combined the air of a second-semester senior and that of an action hero walking away from an explosion. In fact, his presidency generally seems to be following the typical arc of a college career, if you think about it.

Trouble's a-bruin


As easy as it is to hate the Patriots, we feel a little sorry for Boston this week: Earlier in the month it was nominated as the U.S.’s bid to be a host city for the 2024 Summer Olympics. To remedy an understandably tepid response, Boston’s mayor signed an order banning city employees from grouching. That’ll work.

Movie Night


A generous group of organizers have raised money to allow middle-school aged kids to see “Selma” for free, and four movie theaters in the Triangle are participating for a limited time.  College kids, hit up CUAB’s free movie nights on the weekends. We’re kind of salty no one told us about them until now.

Opinions? Booo!


Yeeeow! Sure has been a scorcher this week, and we’re not talking about the weather. Hot takes abounded: The Patriots were found to be supplying underinflated game balls, people got salty about a Muslim prayer and  Obama winked during a speech (the nerve!). Cool off, y’all.  That’s OUR job. 

Like moths to a light


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We don’t know he does it, but Jon Stewart somehow keeps finding ways to coax conservative politicians onto his show despite his well-known track record of tearing them apart. Mike Huckabee’s fate was no different this week as he decided to use his airtime to hate on Beyonce. Stewart showed no mercy. Good.