Two posts from P.Z. Myers for those of us waiting for test-runs of web-crawling scripts to complete on a Friday morning:

• The origins of booze describes the process through with ancestral yeasts evolved the capacity to produce alcohol.
• Life imitates art as an eight-year-old boy is suspended for pledging allegiance to the "United Federation of Planets, and to the galaxy for which it stands, one universe, under everybody, with liberty and justice for all species" and PZ responds with a Matt Groening comic.