Don't chomp on your carrot

GOP pontificators claimed Romney would win by a landslide, which they defined as an Electoral College victory of at least 100 points. Strange that when Obama won by that much a word is missing.



Revenge of the nerds. Nate Silver, star prognosticator of the election, is now seen as a sex symbol and worth parodying. After the election, people started creating tweets suggesting what Nate Silver might do while drunk. A couple examples:

Drunk Nate Silver counting out exactly five hundred and thirty-eight french fries at McDonalds, then slowly dipping 206 of them in ketchup.

Drunk Nate Silver writes a one-sentence letter to PETA: "Don't worry, Schrödinger's cat is fine."

Since Mr. Silver grew up in East Lansing (son of an MSU prof.) the Sunday Free Press did a feature article about him.



As part of austerity tax increases a theater in Spain faced a 21% tax on tickets, a 13 point jump. So now they sell single carrots for a high price (4% tax) and throw in a ticket for free. Please turn off your cell phone and don't chomp on your carrot.