• The Weekly Standard used strategically placed ellipses to suggest Joe Klein thinks Iran is “breezy” with freedom, which is patently false. Joe Klein thinks Iran is “overflowing” with buckets of candy corn. Get it right or apologize, Weekly Standard. [Swampland]
• Be it Hamas, Hezbollah, Chavez, Castro, corn syrup, Heinrich Himmler, unibrows or the sinking of the Lusitania — in the battle of Good versus Evil, Barack Obama endorses Evil. Always. [RedState]
• Internet sensations Matthew Yglesias and Ezra Klein are reading Infinite Jest together, and they’re keeping a diary about it. Because the world needs more of those WordPress things. [A Supposedly Fun Blog]
• Henry Paulson and Fareed Zakaria will mate, and they will ask Matt Taibbi to be the child’s godfather. Also: Fareed Zakaria is a ham-head. [Matt Taibbi]
• Jonah Goldberg’s pet snail is dead! “Gary never caused trouble, never talked back, helped keep his tank a cleaner, better place and made everyone smile.” If only Michelle Obama could be a little more like Gary. [The Corner]

Here is some footage of blogger Matt Yglesias talking about fallen American hero Tim Russert. (Matt once wrote about how unbearably inane Russert was, and then Russert died three weeks later, and everybody on the Internet hated Matt for being so insensitive the end.) We made this poor fellow say terrible things for the camera by promising him beers, which were free, at the Summit Brewing Company last night. Thanks Utne Reader for the fun party! [Matthew Yglesias, YouTube]

Hey look, it’s a map renaming states after countries with similar GDPs! This is like a wacky Boing Boing item, but with less robot tapestries and fried iPods. [Strange Maps via Matthew Yglesias]

Yesterday afternoon, Atlantic’s coolish blogger extroadinaire Matthew Yglesias posted angrily about Mickey Kaus’ insistence on the John Edwards-Hippie affair rumors even though there’s nothing really to them (we think! who knows!) Then, some commenter posted this Wonkettish bit: “Hey, you know what I hear, Mickey Kaus likes to fuck goats,” which led to something of an avalanche of goat-fucking accusations which Kaus has yet do deny. Although people always call Wonkette the filthy blog, MyDD, Kos, Atrios and alla them are having the most fun day ever with this. After the jump, grisly details of Kausgoat-gate from the Yglesias comment board. MORE »

It’s all Andrew Sullivan all the time! Well, not really. But rastafarian blogger Matthew Yglesias is moving to the Atlantic Monthly website and leaving This American Life or wherever he used to work. MORE »

Bold facers display their blithe indifference to the common man in this week’s Wonk’d as Alan Greenspan laughs uproariously at the unsuspecting pawns in Borat, Bill Clinton ignores dead bodies in the street, and fey Karl Rove won’t even give a guy a courtesy nod. James Baker still keeps it real by hanging at bars - but only if they’re really classy. At least there’s always Marion Barry, who’s hip to the hot spots, and down with the cool styles. All these celebrity drinking habits, plus Grover Norquist reduced to buying last season’s irregular suits off the rack, after the jump.

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Here’s a picture of super blogger Matthew Yglesias (formerly of the American Prospect, also of ten hundred different blogs) in a Halloween costume. We don’t know what the hell he’s dressed as, no. Axl Rose maybe? We’ll say Axl Rose. His lovely friend appears to be Roy, of Siegfried and…. MORE »

• Yglesias is a Foley apologist! Totally down with “if there’s grass on the field, play ball” mentality! [Matthew Yglesias]

• Blogger claims to have discovered the identity of the mysterious “teen” from the IM convos — news so hot and breaking he’ll have to tell you tomorrow. [Passionate America]
• Hastert sat on Foley’s emails for the same reason he wouldn’t sit on his face: homophobia. [The Carpetbagger Report]
• Foley refused to appear on The Colbert Report because he wasn’t offered enough cocaine. [Rising Hegemon]
• Katy Harris not the only one who thinks Democrats set Foley up. [Think Progress]
• Foley’s nowhere near a rehab clinic, is actually hiding behind a gimp mask at a leather bar in Key West. [TPMMuckraker]
• Paul Begala’s gonna pop a cap in Foley’s ass. [Political Wire]
• Bush gives Bob Woodward Rumsfeld’s job, wants him to “use his fabled powers of hindsight to lead the Pentagon.” [Scrappleface]

How on Earth can anyone in Washington be expected to give a rat’s ass about Abramoffukkah on a day where Washington’s version of Jesus Christ, Joe Gibbs, has found his way back to the NFL playoffs. AT the very least, we get another one of Clinton Portis’ awesomely cool press conferences. Though we must correct our brother Deadspin: it’s “Pretty Teef.” [Deadspin] MORE »