PERRY DEHAVILLAND: An appeal for disunity.

RUN THOSE PRINTING PRESSES: Democratic Governors Want $1 Trillion.

UPDATE: “Pandora’s Box Has Been Opened.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: A hedge-fund reader emails:

I think of it as President Bush smashing the national piggy bank, and handing the contents to Obama and a harshly partisan Democrat congress.

It’s a nightmare scenario on the fiscal side, with the Wall Street debacle as context, rationale and scapegoat.

Why bother voting GOP if they’ll sell you out for nothing?

You’ll have to ask the G.O.P. for an answer on that one . . . .

PHYLLIS CHESLER: “Now, not only is Hamas launching an increasing number of rockets deeper into Israel but grassroots ‘attack’ groups, organized by mosques, Muslim student and civil rights groups and by their left-wing allies, are on the march.”

OH, GOODY: 111th Congress Convenes Monday: Let the Games Begin.

Games, clown show, whatever.

GOOGLE WANTS YOU TO be its (unpaid) muse.

11 QUESTIONS for Obama’s science team.

MACGYVER on MacGruber.

THE TOP TEN tax stories of 2008.

ROBERT WRIGHT AND MICKEY KAUS on Obama’s drift to the right.

He’ll probably push a restoration of that “assault-weapon” ban as a sop to the left.

OBAMA: A year of transparency and access.

WELL, GOOD: New wind turbine could dramatically increase generation efficiency.

A POLITICAL YEAR at the movies.

WILL FEMIA: Are suckers born, or made?

WHAT TO PACK FOR THE APOCALYPSE. But what about the zombies? (Should I be worried that so many of the items on the zombie list are showing as “out of stock?” Do you people know something I don’t? . . .)

UPDATE: SayUncle emails: “Well, there was an election recently and many dead were walking the earth to vote.” Good point!

KIMBERLEY STRASSEL: Senate Goes Wobbly on Card-Check. “It’s hard to defend taking away the secret ballot.”

CLEAN DIESEL: Test-Driving the Touareg TDI.

A READER EMAILS: “I’ll bet Obama wishes he’d Hsut up!” President-elect’s name may emerge in Norman Hsu fraud trial.

GLOBAL COOLING:

At least once in Earth’s history, global warming ended quickly, and scientists have long wondered why. Now researchers are reporting that the abrupt cooling — which took place about 12,900 years ago, just as the planet was emerging from an ice age — may have been caused by one or more meteors that slammed into North America.

That could explain the extinction of mammoths, saber-tooth tigers and maybe even the first human inhabitants of the Americas, the scientists report in Friday’s issue of the journal Science.

Let’s hope this doesn’t happen again any time soon.

JEFFREY GOLDBERG: Nizar Rayyan of Hamas on God’s Hatred of Jews.

LARRY TRIBE SAYS the Senate doesn’t have to seat Burris.

UPDATE: Jane Hamsher: “Harry Reid, Punk’d By Blago Over Burris, Rejects The Rule Of Law.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: “So at at time when there isn’t a single black person in the U.S. Senate, a black man arrives at the doorway and means to go forward to take what he believes is his rightful seat… Great imagery, Democrats!”