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The Predictions Game, With Famous Blogger Mickey Kaus

[Monday]"Obama by double digits" in N.C.: Predicted by a blogger using a sophisticated model that ignores ... what's been happening in the campaign. Like Rev. Wright. I predict this person is wrong! ... Update: He was right. ... [via Insta] 9:27 P.M.
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Dartmouth's Dearth of Dictionaries Dartmouth Dean of First-Year students Gail M. Zimmerman, in an email to students threatened with a lawsuit by Priya Venkatesan:
Questions arose as to our ability to block Prof. Venkatesan's emails. Whether that ability exists or not, it would not likely stop her emails from reaching your inbox given the dearth and ready availability of other free email systems such as hotmail, gmail, and yahoo.
Ah, yes. The "dearth and ready availability" of free email addresses. You never cease to impress us, Ivies! [Dartlog via IvyGate]

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts suffered a "benign idiopathic seizure" yesterday. While the Chief is reported as being "fully recovered," keep your fingers crossed for the guy; now that Democrats control the Senate, he's our last hope for rolling back the Constitutional rights of black people and women. [LAT]

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Everything That's In Page Six Today And Where It Came From


Once in a while, every single item in Page Six except for the really obscure and favor-paybacky ones has either been reported elsewhere or is also simultaneously being reported everywhere. Today was one of those times, as this video, which was painstakingly spliced together by our fella Alex Goldberg, attests.