Some Sunday Links

Here are some links for you. Science goes first:

1. Piggies and MRSA: the Mad Biologist, Revere, and Tara. Alex Koppelman also chimes in.
2. Do we always need to rebut creationists?
3. Chloramphenicol, an antibacterial, seems to protect endangered frogs from a fungal epidemic.
4. One of nature's most interesting hermaphrodites: the limpet.
5. Crooked Timber has a good rebuttal of that silly female-walk paper.
6. A five planet solar system! And it's only 41 light years away...
7. Tuberculosis, elephants, and humans, oh my!
8. Lewis Black's humorous take on creationism.

Other stuff:

1. Lance Mannion describes two star-crossed lovers in a coffeeshop.
2. Vagina dentata. Really. Someone tell Chris Matthews...
3. Shakes discusses the ongoing domestic terrorism problem in the U.S.
4. In response to David Brooks' pathetic attempt to pretend that the Southern Strategy never existed, Paul Krugman and Phil Nugent smack him around.
5. Football and TEH GAY!!
6. This post sums up my thoughts about Senator Clinton: "...if we elect Hillary Clinton instead, the blogosphere will be complicit. And when Hillary governs as the corporate centrist that she is, elite bloggers will be the first to complain."
7. Kung Fu Monkey explains why the screen writers are striking.
8. Sydney Blumenthal: "Every aspect of George Bush's foreign policy has now collapsed. Every dream of neoconservatism has become a nightmare. Every doctrine has turned to dust."
9. Paul Rosenberg describes the New New Racism.
10. Alan Dershowitz on torture: doing his part to disprove Charles Murray's claim that we Jews are smart.
11. A former instructor at the US Navy Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape School says that Partial Drowning Interrogation is torture.