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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 »