((kinda cheating on that title I know, b/c every day is free form here at TDS!))

1. In retrospect

Nice breakdown of the GOP strategy in the election (and more importantly, over Obama's 1st four years) and why it was an #epicfail

The Republicans Bet Everything, and Obama Won It All

By Jonathan Chait
Thanks for playing, bitches!

2. Let it Grow

And it begins. Listen guys, you lost. Pot won. Deal with it. If you can't stand the smoke, get out of the mother fuckin way.

Landlords steaming over pot

Worry about medicinal law’s effect on property

By Erin Smith and Christine McConville

Burned up landlords are begging Beacon Hill pols to ban pot smokers from growing 6-foot high ganja plants in their apartments — a loophole in the state’s newly passed but hazy medical marijuana law.
The law — rolling out Jan. 1 — grants medical marijuana users the right to grow a two-month supply of weed at home if they cannot get to a pot dispensary because they are too sick or too broke.
Skip Schloming, executive director of the state’s Small Property Owners Association, said a 60-day supply could be huge.

two month supply! 6 foot high plants! ahahahahhaha... I'm in love with Massachusetts!

3. You've heard of tree-hugging...

But how about, Tree-humping! Ecstasy's a helluva drug..

Jenny McCarthy Ecstasy: Actress Tried To Have Sex With A Tree While On Ecstasy

There's a reason they tell you to just say "no."
Jenny McCarthy doesn't hold anything back in her new book, "Bad Habits: Confessions of a Recovering Catholic" -- including the time she was so high on ecstasy she tried to have sex with a tree.
The Daily Mail reports that the 40-year-old actress and Playboy model writes that after taking one too many hits of the party drug she found herself completely naked and holding a tree to brace herself. "The texture felt so good that I decided to rub my head and boobs all over it. It was a tree I was humping," she wrote.

And just like that, dirty hippies everywhere are looking for that tree..

4. The force is not so strong anymore

And the list of directors turning down Star Wars continues to grow.. Spielberg, Tarantino.. out. (now that would be awesome! Thanks to the internet we have some idea how that would go.

Bonus peak at what a Wes Anderson Star Wars may look like as well.. courtesy of Conan

5. The train wreck keeps a rollin

Not that I care one way or another or like her music, but man, Rihanna is just out of her mind..

WATCH: Rihanna, ‘I’m too drunk for this’

Last Updated: 1:11 PM, November 9, 2012
Posted: 12:56 PM, November 9, 2012

Rihanna gave a candid and expletive-filled interview on Facebook’s live streaming channel yesterday, answering questions about her career, her future aspirations, and briefly, Chris Brown...

The singer also said in the interview that in 30 years' time, "I wanna be skinny. I wanna be fierce. I hope my t--s are still sitting up. That's what I really want at 54. Nothing else will matter at that point."

Here's to your tits sitting up, girl!

6. Gen Betray-us

Some are wondering why he stepped down over a small thing like an affair.. well, it wasnt just that he was having an affair, it was the lewd things he was doing in said affair.. just ask Fox News

CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus Resigns, Citing 'Extramarital Affair'

7. There's no crying in the white house

VERKLEMPT

BarackObama.com / AP Photo

Obama Cries in Speech to Staff

A video of President Obama getting emotional while thanking his campaign staff has gone viral. Nearly 1.5 million people have watched the clip since it was published on YouTube on Thursday. The newly reelected commander in chief spoke to his young team about his own salad days in Chicago and said, “It’s not that you guys remind me of myself, it’s the fact that you are so much better than I was, in so many ways.” When recalling how he felt on election night, before his win had been solidified, Obama got choked up, his voice quivered as he wiped a tear from his eye and said, “I’m really proud of you.”

8. Full Show Friday

Because everyone needs a lil TAB heading into the weekend...

Full Show Friday: Trey Anastasio ’99 – Acoustic and TAB Trio

It’s hard to believe that over 13 years have passed since Trey Anastasio’s first solo tour. For that May 1999 excursion, the Phish front man gave fans a taste of his newest material and Phish classics during an acoustic first set and then treated attendees to more new tunes and a killer batch of covers for an electric second set in which he was backed by drummer Russ Lawton and bassist Tony Markellis.

For today’s Full Show Friday we set the HT Time Machine for 1999 and land at one of the TAB Trio’s first performances – May 6th, 1999 at The Riviera in Chicago. The highlights are many as in the first set you have the only solo acoustic Punch You In The Eye of the tour and one of only two unplugged Runaway Jim’s and then in the second set TAB takes Sand and Gotta Jibboo deep. There’s also a heartfelt take on I Can See Clearly Now, Marc Ribot’s Aqui Como Alla and the way-too-rare Somantin. Both sets are on YouTube thanks to thegreatboognish. Blow off work and take a look…

Classic Trey face right there... looks like he needs a clean pair of shorts by the time that jam's over..

Some other music treats on this fri:

New Soundgarden video!
Rare Band footage unearthed!
Bonnie Rait joins the Stones for Shine A light!

9. Trey talks break up

Obviously this will only appeal to a certain select of the group.. but... this quote says it all..

In a story that appears in the latest issue of Rolling Stone, the members of Phish reflect on the band’s break-up back in 2004. Drummer Jon Fishman, recalls that Trey Anastasio “came to the band, in ’04, totally out of his mind, saying, ‘The only way I can describe this is, if I don’t get out of Phish now, I’ll die.’