A guide to this year's Super Bowl for people who don't follow football.

Six years ago today, a major metropolitan area shut down due to fear of a viral advertising campaign for a cartoon featuring fast food products that don't solve crime.

LATE FIVE:
* "Welcome to military commission hearings in the world's greatest democracy, now all but impossible to hold fairly because of our history of torturing suspects."
* Interesting. Rod Dreher on meritocracy and geography.
* Time to address corporate welfare also.
* Google Maps starts mapping North Korea. Internet responds pretty much like you'd guess they would.
* A new future for The New Republic.