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Want a massive squee to start your day? How about a baby blue penguin being raised by biologists. Clare Duffy, sister of Kate Duffy of Kensington, reports on MSNBC in a video that was so popular online, they ran it on the evening television program Saturday night.

How can a baby penguin NOT be popular, I wonder? Impossible.

ETA: A US-only feed? NOT COOL BEAVIS. I’m sorry! Thanks to Elinyx, here’s one that works.

Gay Pride Day was June 29, and thanks to Iron Lesbian #2, here’s a Schoolhouse Rock style gay US history lesson.

Tomorrow is the 4th of July, when Americans celebrate their independence from the UK by paying ridiculous costs for healthcare, grilling like manly men, setting off fireworks in dry areas where they probably shouldn’t, and generally being our giant, gregarious selves. And most folks, including me, have the day off. Woo!

So since today is a Thursday pretending to be a Friday, Friday Videos are pretending too. This video comes from Barb Ferrer, who says, “Don’t be drinking anything” when you watch it.

I stumbled upon this one myself, and it’s full of win and excellence just for the URL at the end, to say nothing of the lyrics.

Two videos full of WTF. One is just tutti-fruity fun. The other… I’m still not sure what’s going on there.

First, from Brandi, a Busby Berkeley routine so full of ruffles and bananas, it would, as Brandi says, give Freud conniptions: