Even more Sunday night links.

* Ev psych on the ropes? We can only dare to hope.

* MetaFilter remembers the Stonewall protests.

* Also from MetaFilter: Are we doing enough to prevent the asteroid apocalypse?

* Pawlenty says he'll finally let Franken be seated once the state Supreme Court issues its ruling. Aren't we moving a little fast, Tim? It's only been eight months.

* Katrina vanden Heuvel with Steve Benen against bipartisanship.

* 3 Quarks Daily's top science blog posts of 2009.

* And Ze Frank plays "That Makes Me Think Of" again at Time, this week about thigns that are and aren't black and white. Can't we get The Show back already? We keep getting closer and closer.

Various sorts of collectivities.

* 902 U.S. mayors have signed a pledge to "reduce carbon emissions by 7 percent below 1990 levels by 2012; strive to meet or beat the Kyoto Protocol targets in their own communities; and to urge Congress to pass the bipartisan GHG reduction legislation."

* Experts continue to call for a global network to prevent an asteroid disaster, and everyone continues to ignore them.

* The U.S. 6th Circuit has ruled that the Vatican's crypto-corporate structure does not insulate it from lawsuits.

* Five hundred years of board games. Via Cynical-C.

Asteroid apocalypse! Behold the impact calculator.

I have about four months of magazines to catch up on. Let's start now with this month's Atlantic, which is actually pretty replete with interesting articles:

* Ross Douthat worries that the short memory of historians will allow the badness of the Bush years to be too quickly forgotten:

In this sense, it might be said that a too-keen awareness of the American tendency to associate great leadership with world-historical ambition has wrecked the presidency of George W. Bush. But the enthusiasm for Barack Obama and John McCain suggests that the yearning, on the left and right alike, for presidents who will pursue greatness has only been enhanced by the debacle in Iraq. This is good news for Bush, who has to hope that the same propensity that ruined his administration will redeem his reputation. But it’s dangerous news for America. Those who rehabilitate the follies of the past are condemned to repeat them.

* Professor X opens the books on teaching composition at a "college of last resort."

* And Gregg Easterbrook examines the asteroid menace.

Thursday links:

* If you thought last night's ABC debate was a travesty, you're not alone. The worst thing I've heard about the debate thus far—and that's saying a lot—is that Stephanopolous let Hannity write some of his questions.

* 'No truth to claims that 13-year-old found NASA error.' NASA stands by its calculation that Asteroid Apophis has only a 1 in 450,000 chance of striking Earth.

* The perfect length for a song has been proven to be 2 minutes and 52 seconds.

You need more proof? Jerk. Let’s look at Sgt. Pepper. “Lovely Rita” is two minutes, 42 seconds. It delivers that psychedelic vibe and a coda but then gets the hell out of your life.

Compare that to “With a Little Help from My Friends.” It’s a mere two seconds longer but feels like it drags on for hours. Maybe it’s Ringo, maybe it’s the tedious melody—or maybe it’s the two goddamn seconds.

Then over here we have “Good Morning Good Morning,” rightfully discarded by the masses as a throwaway. Why? Two minutes, 41 seconds. Hey, Beatles, maybe next time think about tacking on an extra second to give a song the grandeur and majesty it deserves.

* The best films that didn't win the Best Picture Oscar.

* When Nixon Met Elvis.

It looks like Asteroid Apophis will miss us in 2029—but its close path to Earth will alter its usual trajectory such that it could hit us on its next approach in 2036. NASA said the odds were only 1 in 45,000, but a 13-year-old German wunderkind has demonstrated that it's actually 1 in 450. Via MeFi.