Only four third-party presidential candidates have ever polled higher than 20% within a year of the election: George Wallace, John Anderson, Ross Perot, and now RFK.

Literally everything in the October 1978 issue of Penthouse would have appealed to Elon Musk:

Interstellar lust?
Robot lib?
Death after death?
Future cars?
Cosmic censorship?
SEX WITH A DOLPHIN?

All of Musk’s interests!

In 2020, I proposed an economic/political compromise: pair the richest and poorest Dem candidates as the president/vice-president nominees. So Bloomberg and... Buttigieg?

Republicans should do the same for 2024. So Burgum* and… Suarez? Hurd?

*i assume Trump is lying about his wealth.

Sleeping is so stupid. Evolution stinks.

The best scene in any Mel Brooks movie is "Putting on the Ritz" from Young Frankenstein.

The Weird Al movie is a gateway drug to the other high-quality content on Roku: all that weird Quibi garbage (plus Dishmantled, which is—no joke—the perfect reality show).

Has New York tried electing some sort of a cartoon cat as mayor?

Updated RFK state-level polling.

Still seeing huge variation by pollster. RFK polling somewhere between 7% and 26%? Major house effects.

The City Council of the City of Culver City sure love the word “city”:

Why is Eva Braun referred to as Hitler's "mistress" rather than his "girlfriend"?

Is any other woman consistently referred to as a "mistress" to an unmarried man?

It takes a certain panache to leave the 9/11 Commission Report in a Little Free Library.

A major flaw in the English language is that sometimes you say “do do” in a normal, non-scatalogical sentence—e.g., “I do do the dishes”—but it sounds like you’re saying the vulgar word “doodoo.”

Whoever invented English really messed up.