FREE KRAUT!

Fellatio By Fruit Bats Prolongs Copulation Time
This is great:
Oral sex is widely used in human foreplay, but rarely documented in other animals. Fellatio has been recorded in bonobos Pan paniscus, but even then functions largely as play behaviour among juvenile males. The short-nosed fruit bat Cynopterus sphinx exhibits resource defence polygyny and one sexually active [...]

So I was reading this rudimentary ode to the Brussels sprout, and I thought, “Hey, you know what would be good? Brussels kraut!”
Lo and behold, Michael Voltaggio got there ahead of me:
Pastrami Pigeon
Rye-infused Jus, Brussels-Kraut, Little Potatoes, Puffed Gruyere Cheese

(And, yes, I know, FSU is going to insist it should be corned pigeon.)

Those who have lists, and have Huddy on them, prepare to cross him off
This is a fun idea. It also suggests a new Chavvy nickname: Not-Mexican-Enough Elephant.
Non-Slate-style contrarianism: platoon splits do not necessarily mean what you think they do
“hmm, I just watched over three hours of a FOX broadcast, and I’m not annoyed”
xbx haz a [...]

I share Sully’s tawdry anticipation
Pie Spy?!?
#12 for #18
Perfect for lawyers and criminals

Jason Giambi … tired act?
Giambi wasn’t a huge fan of A’s manager Bob Geren and was a major influence in a clubhouse full of young players

Grady Fuson needs a job
Cross the Mets off the list of Bradley suitors. I’m still going to keep advocating trading Chavez for Milton until someone responds …
Nate Silver: monkeyball was [...]

This is very interesting, but it’s really, really incomplete. I’d like to see breakouts by team, and some controlling for other factors (opponent, weather, W/L, etc.). Oh, and I guess I’m old: I’d never even heard of Webkinz.
I have to say, I really rather dislike John C. Reilly. I think he’s this generation’s Gene Hackman [...]

found here

(Via Young Ezra.)

Michael Ruhlman’s reuben with homemade pastrami

Shocking Barack
“You would be shocked at the level of interest.” (I still say we ought to trade Chavez for him. And I’ll keep saying it until someone makes fun of it and/or takes it seriously.)
No, really – fuck YOU, Arnold.
Everyone was mocking this yesterday, but I think it’s pretty clearly explained by this.
Happy birthdays to [...]

Human beat writers will go extinct before human umpires do
GET MOTIVATED!
Hawt:
At one point, the former first lady produced a bobblehead figure of herself and mounted it on the lectern

The Force is strong with this one: “This is not the contract extension you’re looking for.”
Byg Twyt on duke