Links for you. Science:

Audiophiles and the Need to be Special (as someone who actually does have off-the-chart hearing, even at my advanced age, and is not an audiophile, this cracks me up. DIGITAL BABY!)
Are genes the key to the Yankee Empire?
Draft blog post cleanup #1: Divide and Conquer to Find Orthologs
Our symbionts are death!
Science Sunday: Dragonfly Accompanying Behavior

Other:

Are we alone in the universe?
Observations and Realizations of 2011
Let’s Start Paying College Athletes
Let’s All Go Insane at the Movies!
Ancient Africa: Timbuktu
Ron Paul: Not a Civil Libertarian
Budget Balancers and Global Warmers
Ron Paul’s Unusual Nonprofit Support Structure
How Christian Right-Wing Voters in Iowa Make Abortion a Central Issue in the Caucuses: To really understand Iowa, you need to understand the primacy of abortion as an issue to the Christian right.
Single By Choice
White House Denies CIA Teleported Obama to Mars
Republicans Have Shut Down The NLRB. The President Must Act!