The Whole World Is Making Unofficial Sign Language at Him Now: Reuters reports on the scandal of the day: "A fake sign language interpreter took to the stage during a mass memorial for anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela, gesticulating gibberish before a global audience of millions and outraging deaf people across the world." Here he goes—with an inset of an actual interpreter to compare and contrast!

Make a movie about this guy!!

Fox News: Breathless and scandalized by president Obama taking a selfie at Mandela's service.

Can Republicans Swallow? That's what folks are wondering about the GOP-controlled House accepting a bipartisan $85 billion budget. While it undoes $63 billion in sequester cuts, it also reduces the deficit by $23 billion without tax increases. But now that he's made a deal with Senator Patty Murray, GOP Representative Paul Ryan is struggling to sell the budget to his Tea Party caucus. The House will reportedly vote tomorrow.

Time Person of the Year: It's Pope Francis. That's a superficial choice, though; Francis hasn't reformed any of the hateful Catholic doctrines that poison international affairs, just talked about wholesome stuff. Shoulda been Edward Snowden, who's taken risks to actually make the world a better place.

Any Chief Is Good as Long as It's Nobody We Know: That's the argument for hiring a new chief from outside the Seattle Police Department, regardless of interim chief Jim Pugel's performance.

Obamacare Enrollment: More than doubled in November, compared to the previous month, but with only 365,000 folks total, it's still far behind the 800,000 target.

Tunnel Obstruction: An old locomotive? A metal beam? A gigantic unstable boulder? They still donut what to do.