Your Best Links Now – 1/29/14

Research Shows that When Planned Parenthood Disappears, Teen Pregnancies Decline

Owen Strachan offers some takeaways.

Translating Paul’s Letter to the Corinthians Into a Terrible PowerPoint Presentation

This piece by Gabriel Rossman is funny but also insightful.

Why Do Our Presidents Always Say the State of the Union is Strong?

Joe Carter writes, “[Pr]edicting that the state of our union will be described as ‘strong’ is about as safe a bet as you can make when it comes to politics . . . [I\t was Ronald Reagan who started the ‘strong’ trend in 1983.” And it was Gerald Ford who was the last president to say the state of the union wasn’t good.

Your Chick-Fil-A Sandwich Has Got a Lot of Not Chicken In It

These sandwiches are so good, and what more delicious way to get your daily recommended amount of dimethylpolysiloxane as an anti-foaming agent? You don’t want to foam, do you?

Big Cat Video in England?

One of the more modern fascinations in the cryptozoology world is the recurring sightings of “big cats” — leopards, pumas, cougars, even tigers — in Great Britain, where these animals supposedly don’t live. The photo evidence is slightly better than that for Bigfoot in the U.S., but here’s a fairly compelling video and report by the BBC of a policeman’s alleged sighting of a puma.

Retro Photos from 1980′s Shopping Malls

Maybe you have to be a child of the 70′s or 80′s to appreciate this, but I think this selection from the work of photographer Michael Galinksy is, like, totally boss. There is a peculiar nostalgia at work here, and not just in the gawkiness of 80′s fashion but in the mall culture heyday and a time when people walked around without staring at phones, but just trying to look, you know, rad and whatever.

Biff from Back to the Future Wants You to Stop Asking Him the Question

From actor Tom Wilson’s standup routine, this song is hilarious.