In honor of the most beloved polit­i­cal video of all time and in appre­ci­a­tion of all our reg­is­tered NRA mem­bers (whom we also love) I present one of my very favorite time wasters for your week­end diver­sion. There’s just some­thing deeply sat­is­fy­ing for a polit­i­cal junkie about blow­ing up turkeys, isn’t there? Alas, unlike Sarah Palin’s poor doomed turkeys, these wily ones can escape through the front of your com­puter. After three of them get away, the game is over. Oth­ers (like most polit­i­cal turkeys) even­tu­ally get smart and put on pro­tec­tive armor. And if that’s not enough, ulti­mately they arm them­selves with assault rifles (I’m pretty sure they have extended clips) and start fir­ing back.

I have no idea what hap­pens after the turkeys acquire weapons…I’ve never been able to get that far. My annoy­ing 11-​​year-​​old tech assis­tant (who claims to have run his score some­where up over 6,000) tells me it’s “awe­some” but smugly refuses to pro­vide fur­ther details. If any of you are skil­ful enough to find out, I would greatly appre­ci­ate being let in on the secret.