Overnight Open Thread (Mætenloch)

Welcome to the weekend countdown. Get those last few hours of football, grilling, and drinking in while you still can.

Chicks Are Gullible Too Part XII: Making Out With Chimps
Well sometimes you do have to kiss a few chimps to find an actual man.

Steven Den Beste is blogging about politics again at Hot Air's Greenroom.

2009 Bad Sex in Fiction Award Nominees Announced
One of the candidates:

"Alba has stepped out of her dress in one flowing, stylized movement, like a torero, the object of all eyes, trailing his cape in the dust before the baffled bull; underneath, she is naked. She looks to the side, downwards; her eyelids are so shinily pale and fine that Adam can see clearly all the tiny veins in them, blue as lapis. He takes a floating step forward until his chest is barely touching the tips of her nipples, behind which he senses all the gravid tremulousness of her breasts. She puts her hands flat against his chest and leans into him in a simulacrum of a swoon, making a mewling sound."

Can You Beatbox on the Flute?
The answer is yes.

Did the Ex-KGB blew the whistle on Climategate?
I doubt it. My suspicion is that it was a disgruntled insider and the hacked Russian server was just a convenient place to distribute it from. Remember the BBC had the emails a month before they appeared in public.

Get the Reagan App for your iPhone

My Parents Were Awesome
A blog that reminds us that our parents were young and (sorta) hip at one time.

Julio Iglesias Is Jewish But His Penis is Not?
And is viagra kosher?

Puppehs in a Cup!

Celebrity Death Watch:
Phyllis Diller, Betty Ford and Don Pardo are all still alive. Happy Birthdays to Eli Wallach and Dave Brubeck.

Weekly AoSHQ Commenter Standings
Well, well apparently Ace has descended from Mons Moronus to hobnob with the hoi polloi.

Top 10 commenters:
1 [644 comments] 'Elizabeth' [92.0 posts/day]
2 [593 comments] 'logprof'
3 [556 comments] 'wherestherum'
4 [250 comments] 'ace'
5 [245 comments] 'ParanoidGirlInSeattle'
6 [233 comments] 'laceyunderalls'
7 [231 comments] 'Sassypants'
8 [227 comments] 'Rodent Liberation Front'
9 [225 comments] 'Dang Straights'
10 [207 comments] 'a.k.a.'

Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
1 [79 names] 'Mallamutt' [11.08 unique names/day]
2 [73 names] 'Blackford Oakes'
3 [37 names] 'kbdabear'
4 [35 names] 'runningrn'
5 [35 names] 'mcassill'
6 [34 names] 'andycanuck'
7 [34 names] 'lurksalot'
8 [32 names] 'logprof'
9 [28 names] 'Y-not'
10 [25 names] 'toby928'

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