Quick Hits

A new "Steve, Don't Eat It!" is up, wherein fearless Steve brews and consumes prison hooch.

My old WXYC mate Carrie demonstrates the impressive mold resistance of McDonald's cuisine.

A new family of catfish was discovered in Chiapas, Mexico. While this is the 37th known family of catfish, the discovery marks only the third new family of fish announced in the last 60 years, following the coelacanth in 1938 and the megamouth shark in 1983.

The Washington Post's Walter Pincus notes the demonstrated financial savvy of our new president of the World Bank and let's hope it isn't an omen.

Testimony by then-Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul D. Wolfowitz, one of the chief architects of Iraq policy, before a House subcommittee on Feb. 28, 2003, just weeks before the invasion, illustrated the optimistic view the administration had of postwar Iraq. He said containment of Hussein the previous 12 years had cost "slightly over $30 billion," adding, "I can't imagine anyone here wanting to spend another $30 billion to be there for another 12 years." As of May, the Congressional Research Service estimated that Congress has approved $208 billion for the war in Iraq since 2003.

The Spirit rover snapped a lovely picture of the Martian sunset, while Cassini got a nice one of Saturn's moon Hyperion. Closer to home, it looks like this tornado is riding a rainbow.

Seriously, holy cow. Those are your balls.

Oops.

I gotcher old school DJing right here.

Surprisingly, of the list of the 22 senators who did not sponsor or co-sponsor the Senate bill apologizing for lynching, only six are from Dixie: two each from Mississippi and Texas, and one apiece from Tennessee and Alabama.

Update: The lynching list is a fluid beast, as senators apparently can add themselves retroactively once a bill has passed. John Aravosis has the latest roster.

Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
Robert Bennett (R-UT)
Thad Cochran (R-MS)
Kent Conrad (D-ND)
John Cornyn (R-TX)
Michael Crapo (R-ID)
Michael Enzi (R-WY)
Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
Judd Gregg (R-NH)
Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
Kay Hutchison (R-TX)
Jon Kyl (R-AZ)
Trent Lott (R-MS)
Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
Richard Shelby (R-AL)
John Sununu (R-NH)
Craig Thomas (R-WY)
George Voinovich (R-OH)

Update 2: Along with Republicans Voinovich and Murkowski, Kent Conrad has signed on after the fact, making the list an all-GOP affair. Quelle surprise.