Welcome to The Faster Times update. In today's edition, we bring you an Wael Ghonim, how to survive Valentine's Day single, the closing of the DLC, Ted Kennedy, and grass-fed beef. Enjoy!

Recently-released Google executive praises active protesters, emphasizes Egyptian-led nature of the political campaign.

“The revolution will not be tweeted,” said Malcolm Gladwell this past October, in a move both surprising and ill-timed. Surprising for the New Yorker’s staff writer because of the more-or-less forward-thinking views he’s put forth over the past decade in his books The Tipping Point and Blink, detailing the now-familiar behavior of a “viral” cultural phenomenon, as well as the power of our own spontaneous judgments, respectively. Ill-timed, for obvious reasons, reasons emphasized today by the release of Wael Ghonim, a Google executive detained by the Egyptian Government for questioning regarding his role in organizing the recent anti-government protests.

If you’re single on Valentine’s Day, you really should be sh*tfaced. I mean, if you’re WITH someone on Valentine’s Day you’ve got all sorts of couples obligations and should be buying your girl flowers or giving your guy a blow job or whatevs. But seriously, if you’ve got no one to be in debt to, get F***ED UP. I don’t mean this in a condescending or self-pitying way; I mean that I have always been single on Valentine’s Day, and it is my favorite night of the year to go out with a friend or two, and knock ‘em back until I start dancing on the bar. Here's why:

News has broken today that the so-called centrist-minded, and corporate friendly, Democratic Leadership Council is closing up shop. Ezra Klein thinks the DLC can pack up because, well, they’ve won...

“Now, there are some who would look at my past and say, ‘Why?’ I choose to look at my past and say, ‘So what?’”

July is the best time to kill a grass-fed beef cow, if you ask me. The animal has been fattened on months of neon-green spring forage. Such a cow won’t be as big in July as it would have been in October, but spring grass-finished meat has a cleaner, sweeter taste, and is dripping with yummy fat.