Here’s your link(s) to the new year.

• What Math? – How Math is a grossly misunderstood subject.
• Obama Is Suffering Because Of His Achievements Not Despite Them – An interesting take on the hits the President has taken. Basically, a bunch of the country hates him because he is getting things done, and the frustration and anger gets worse among this population the more he accomplishes.
• Will The Fed’s Debit Fee Rule Help Merchants? – In another underreported positive consequence of having Democrats in charge when the financial reform bill was developed and passed, transaction fees for credit cards and debit cards will be going down, returning that money to merchants and consumers, who actually use and spend it, rather than aggregating it to the banks, who don’t.
• Jesus Is a Liberal Democrat – If you haven’t seen Stephen Colbert’s take on Christmas-season charity, you should.
• Incredible ISS Pictures – Astronaut Wheelock took these awesome pictures of the ISS during his journey there a few months ago. Amazing.
• New Rules For a New Senate – Sen. Merkley has a proposal to have the Senate actually debate on legislation instead of sitting around holding cloture votes. I know, shocking!