As someone who’s an asshole, you’re an even bigger asshole.

Honestly, I would totally date Ivanka Trump, even knowing that I’d have to put up with El Donaldo. She’s hot, smart and rich and I’m not sure anythign else matters.

“By those in charge”

Gary Johnson is Donald Trump Lite. There, I said it.

Alternate theory: he wants an international bureaucratic position, and Atlanta is paying him to improve his English for a couple of years.

Let’s clear some shit up for the edification of you motherfuckers:

“Huge burn”? I think you guys need to recalibrate your thermometers.

No, if you don’t separate soft rock from rock, you don’t separate country from western.

Meh. She has experience managing or overseeing charitable projects, has been on field visits, and was a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNHCR, so it’s not like this is coming completely out of left field. As someone offering a practitioner’s perspective on development, she has a lot to offer for students to learn from. I…

This is something that puzzles me about the UK and most other places where soccer is played: the extremely close relationship between the sport and gambling interests. Gambling sites show up as main sponsor for teams, Sky basically uses their sport coverage as a feeder for their bookmaking operation, salary contracts…

Gallup implemented methodological changes after the 1948 Dewey-Truman debacle, which I take as one of the milestones in electoral history. That gives 60 years from 1952 to 2012 - obviously there have been improvements since then, but ‘52 saw the abandonment of quota schemes in favor of more random sampling methods.

I’m not sure it would help. The fundamental problem is that we don’t have enough outcome data points (elections) to build models that are actually reliable. That goes double for these kind of advanced forecasting models, since it’s only in the last 15-20 years that they’ve become computationally feasible. You could…

offering the entire and vast diaspora of election analysis and opinions so as to increase the total number of clicks he gets?

Not using Nate Silver’s model.

It’s not really about the elite actors - A-listers will always get roles. The people that this is intended to benefit is the enormous long tail of less popular performers looking to land less important roles. There are thousands, perhaps millions of people trying to make it in show biz that basically work from…

The committee “completely fulfilled its temporary mission”, namely to enable FIFA officials to jet around the world and receive bribes without having to give up a World Cup to do it.

Tell that to rape victims.

Also in contrast to the organized brain-damaging violence that had been taking place just moments ago in the same place.

This, right here, is peak Norm MacDonald. I have read phone books funnier than this but I’m pretty sure people that loved Norm’s Weekend Update et al. find it hilarious.

I’m not saying Jim Grobe is Hitler, but I’m also not refraining from denying the opposite of it, either. In fact I am going out of my way to address the “Jim Grobe might possibly be Hitler” controversy in any way, particularly in such a way that might draw attention to the similarities between Bayer (inventor of…