Cat Got Their Tongues?

Most days, by this time of day, I've  found most or all of my minimum ten podcasts to blurb/link for tomorrow's edition of Rational Review News Digest, and am looking around to see whether I can find 15 worth promoting.

Today, it looks like I'll be lucky to hit five.

I guess part of that may be that a bunch of them did live listener events or "emergency" quickies instead of real podcasts on Election Night.

And another part of it may be that after nearly a year of constant breathless campaign coverage, many podcasters are like "fuck it -- BREAK TIME! Finally!"

But it's kind of weird to hear -- or, rather, not hear -- so many usually loud voices going silent at the same time.

I Like To Get My Admissions of Error In Early ...

... and at the moment, it looks like my presidential election outcome prediction was quite incorrect, both as to general outcome (the disgraced former president seems to have defeated the empty pantsuit), and with fewer correct state predictions than my usual 48.

No, I didn't stay up all night awaiting results -- one of my children thought it was of paramount importance that I know, in the middle of the night, that his motivated guess was right and my dispassionate analysis was wrong.

There shall surely be much wailing and gnashing of teeth. But that was inevitable no matter the vote counts.

Like Mencken said, "democracy, too, is a religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses."

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First Letter: T