Per aspera

Matthew Yglesias, who is much smarter than I am, and who had been accumulating more identities, blogularly speaking, than Marduk, has decided to ditch that paganesque shit and consolidate himself into the One True Internet Yglesias.
BLOGROLLED!

Prepare your crane stance, for it is on!
1) “What They Do,” The Roots
2) “Too Late,” Yo La Tengo
3) “Penny Is Poison,” The Verve Pipe
4) “What Makes You Happy,” Liz Phair
5) “Stay Gold,” Stevie Wonder
6) “Close Edge,” Mos Def
7) “Albany,” They Might Be Giants
8) “Out of Jail,” They Might Be Giants
9) “Androgynous,” Crash Test Dummies
9.5) “Hey […]

I have no “whitey the clown” for you.  I’m not sure who would have it, but I know it ain’t me.
I do, however, have “baboon penis” from time to time, so if you’re reading this, other less persistent but more intriguing Googler, you’re in luck.
If you are both in fact the same Googler, taking a […]

Two years too late, but hey.  Wouldn’t have wanted to influence the election or anything.
Touch yourself with the bowtie of understanding.
(Via Atrios, who is also making you guess.)

“To test what happens when a DNA molecule is overwound, the DNA was stretched between a glass coverslip and a paramagnetic bead, while a fluorescent avidin-coated rotor bead was attached to the DNA just below a biochemical nick.”
Fuckin’ ZOOM!
(via Ellis)

“> Getting Serious about terror”>There. Now I’ve articulated a strategy every bit as coherent and likely to succeed as the Bush-Cheney-Sullivan strategy. “

Ezra Klein:
To add to the post-mortems of the day, my guess is that the relationship between Joe Lieberman and the Democratic Party is about to get a whole lot more fraught. Previously, there was a real unwillingness on the part of the party mandarins to go against Joe who, even if he were to run […]

Stamford Advocate:
“I’m worried that too many people, both in politics and out, don’t appreciate the seriousness of the threat to American security and the evil of the enemy that faces us - more evil or as evil as Nazism and probably more dangerous that the Soviet Communists we fought during the long Cold War,” Lieberman […]

CNN:
Sixty percent of Americans oppose the U.S. war in Iraq, the highest number since polling on the subject began with the commencement of the war in March 2003, according to poll results and trends released Wednesday.
And a majority of poll respondents said they would support the withdrawal of at least some U.S. troops by the […]

So that our top post is not one full of partisan sheep’s venom and blogofascism, I give you a video of a Japanese show wherein successively heavier fish are put out for cats to carry away. Who is strongest kitty? The scientific method will tell us.

(via Cute Overload, natch.)

Hartford Courant:

Connecticut

August 09, 2006 - 12:55AM ET
(i) = incumbent

= winner

= runoff

U.S. Senate -
[…]

From Slashdot:
Ten years later, most scientists believe that everything in the meteorite can be explained by non-biological processes. “We certainly have not convinced the community, and that’s been a little bit disappointing,” said David McKay, a scientist behind the ‘life on Mars’ paper. Unfortunately, David McKay’s own brother is one of his critics. “He [David] […]