Actress Ellen Page Blames VP Pence for Causing Smollett Attack

"Openly gay actress and liberal activist Ellen Page appeared on The Late Show Thursday and went on an bizarre rant against everything from media coverage of global warming to the alleged hate crime against actor Jussie Smollett. She predicted the world was going to end in the next eleven years, yet no one was talking about it, and emotionally ripped into the Vice President for causing the alleged anti-gay attack against Smollett."

Last night with Stephen Colbert (Link)

And back with Ted Cruz at the Iowa State Fair back in 2015 (Link)

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Nostradamus predicted Trump 400 years ago:

The great shameless, audacious bawler. 

He will be elected governor of the army: 

The boldness of his contention. 

The bridge broken, the city faint from fear.

Century III, Quatrain 81

Didn’t see that one coming: TV psychic Miss Cleo has died.

New York Post, Page Six July 26, 2016 by Jessica Sager

A rep for the soothsayer told TMZ that Miss Cleo (real name Younee Harris) died Tuesday while in hospice care, surrounded by family and friends. She was 53.

Harris suffered from colon cancer that spread to her liver and lungs.

Since the Psychic Readers Network closed shop, Harris, who was born in Los Angeles, performed various odd jobs and used her infamous Jamaican accent in voice work for “Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.”

Nate Silver Electoral Map as of today

Here's what the map might look like in an election held today. Trump's Rust Belt strength would help him keep MO, IN pic.twitter.com/OYueYvWFpG

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) March 24, 2016

Meanwhile...

Republicans have cast 19.8 million votes at primary and caucus elections this year, and Democrats have cast 14.8 million. But there’s a third force that has once again dwarfed both of these numbers: the great American tradition of disinterest and apathy.

In the states that have held elections so far, about 106 million eligible voters have opted out of the whole thing. Only about a quarter of the voting-age population, or 40% of registered voters, have turned up to the polls. This is true even though Republicans have turned out in record numbers this year.

"How could everybody get it so wrong?"

Washington Times OPinion: Once upon a time a man or woman put in the early years on the Springfield Republican or the Log Cabin Democrat or the Bloomington Pantagraph, covering spats between aldermen or obscure state legislators, learning the trade along with something about the nature of humanity and acquiring a little familiarity with the body politic, and finally arriving in the city with knowledge, insight and a little learned humility. He was a hard man to fool.

But we’re all at the mercy now of progress, and columnists, commentators and pundits go straight from graduate school to a column, a microphone with a camera, certified like a CPA as a fully fledged doctor of humbuggery. This leaves them at the mercy of the flimflam artist, with no understanding of why and how an audience laps it up.

David Remnick, the editor of the precious and erudite New Yorker magazine, told his readers last summer that Mr. Trump was such an ignoramus, who knew nothing about politics, that his “whole con might end well before the first snows in Sioux City and Manchester.”

They’re still shoveling snow in New Hampshire — the last of it is expected to melt in time for the Fourth of July parade — and Mr. Remnick is still puzzled about why and how it happened.

Mr. Remnick has a lot of distinguished company, even if most of it has not learned a lot from the experience.

James Fallows, who has spent three decades as national correspondent of Atlantic magazine, was even more confident than Mr. Remnick when he wrote early in the campaign cycle that “Donald Trump will not be the 45th president of the United States. Nor the 46th, nor any other number you might name. The chance of his winning the nomination and election is exactly zero.”

Chris Cillizza of The Washington Post was certain as early as last July that “Donald Trump is not going to be the Republican presidential nominee in 2016.” Nate Silver, who successfully applied higher math to presidential politics four years ago and made a name for himself as the guru who got it right, told his colleagues in November to “stop freaking out” about the Donald’s poll numbers. He wasn’t going anywhere. (read the whole thing)

"What is something you believe is about to blow up in popularity?"

Top voted Reddit answers...

           Limes. Last year, it was coconuts. This year, avocados. 2016: limes.

Teslas. Those things are going to become absolutely insane soon.

This app called "Bro." It lets you text the word "bro" to all your other bros so you can keep in touch with each other.

Hopefully A Series of Unfortunate Events when the show comes out

Bernie Sanders.

"Miami wants to predict when and where crime will occur"

It sounds a little like something out of a science fiction novel, but the department is in the process of adopting a system called HunchLab that produces maps showing small areas where specific crimes are likely to be committed during shifts. The probability program is a geographical version of “predictive policing” software, which more departments are using — even if, in the words of one supportive cop, it’s “kind of scary.”

“It doesn’t replace actual police work,” said Lt. Sean MacDonald, who wrote the grant application. “It’s policing with smarter technology.” (read more)

 

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Where Woody Hayes would feel at home. 

The spread favors Denver over Seattle by 2.5, but keep in mind that three out of the four times the Broncos lost the Super Bowl, they were in orange jerseys, as they will be today.