h/t awkward family photos

President Obama hit the reset button, Doug Heye is huge in Germany, Tommy McFly spent some time with Senator Joe Jonas, “Simply not true,” Kitchen 2404 celebrated one year,  Matt got a new gig in Texas, hackers hit the Capitol, Jim Treacher blogged like a MF’r, steel cage match of …

Who’s up for a game of horse? He hasn’t been sworn into office yet, but Massachusetts Sen.-elect Scott Brown is confident he already has the president beat in at least one respect: basketball. h/t CNN

Mr. Jim Treacher, [if that’s even your name] We see your Separated at Birth and raise you one. Hugs, FDC Sen. Sen. Blanche Lincoln and Martin Short.

How to report the TV news

Jon Stewart on Chris Matthews: … “a Scotch away from becoming Ron Burgundy.” Watch it here.

Bin Laden blasts US for climate change

National Zoo panda Tai Shan is set to fly to China on custom FedEx plane. Complementary drinks will be served and somebody will have to sign for him upon his arrival. Tai Shan will fly Feb. 4 nonstop from Dulles International Airport aboard a giant FedEx 777F air freighter. The …

Harder than Chinese Arithmetic: Explaining to non-DC speaking friends that we live-tweeted the State of the Union last night.

There’s no such thing as a free lunch, but the same does not ring true for college basketball.  [dc lottery] The DC Lottery is giving away tickets to Georgetown-Duke at 11am tomorrow. You have to go to facebook.com/dclottery to enter.

There have been so many good ones this week. Man hugging, kissing chicken on NYC subway And no, this wasn’t a drunken KFC run gone terribly wrong. New York City’s transit agency is investigating a video posted online that shows a man kissing and snuggling a live chicken aboard a …

Bart Barnes: J.D. Salinger, author of ‘Catcher in the Rye,’ dies

Fast Company is sharing tips about how to get RTs via Twitter. Not on the list: Words or phrases like: OMG, LOL, ugh, gym, commute, I’ll be on CNN and anything that elludes to you “working for the weekend.” Read the whole list here. h/t MKHammer

The Hill’s Bob Cusack: After Obama rips lobbyists, K St. insiders get private briefings A day after bashing lobbyists, President Barack Obama’s administration has invited K Street insiders to join private briefings on a range of topics addressed in Wednesday’s State of the Union.

“Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.” — Oprah Winfrey h/t Tater