Spanning the Web

Taking you around the internet for your afternoon enjoyment.

He never should have ditched the hoodie: You have to give Sports Illustrated credit for imagination, even though the end-of-the-year Bill Belichick as Santa cover doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. [SI.com]

Happy, happy, happy all the time, shock treatment I’m doing fine: After reading about a school that administers shock treatment to students our first reaction was “they still do that?” Our second was to pull out our stash of Ramones records. The reaction from Washington is decidedly harsher. The District is moving to cut off funds for the school. [Examiner]

This will not end well: Not really our bailiwick but it’s too important to not mention. Pakistan’s former prime minister, and current opposition leader, Benazir Bhutto was assassinated. [NY Times]

We told you not to talk smack to the tiger: Did one of the kids who was mauled by the Siberian Tiger taunt the animal? Yeah, slow news day. [boston.com]