You probably think that headline is just click bait. Think again. This is the real deal. (4k capture from Closer – be sure to view it at full size)

In fact, I’ve under-promised. You will see not one, but TWO assholes in the pic, if you count Clive Owen.

I’m just fuckin’ witcha about Owen. He seems like a decent guy with a good sense of humor. (I hope.)

Her IG feed also includes several pictures of her friend Selma Blair, who is now gray, but looks absolutely great. (Nice to see she’s doing well in her battle with MS.)

“He took her to Buckingham Palace twice, and on one occasion she sat on the Queen’s throne. She spotted a bowl she liked and asked Andrew if she could steal it and [mail] it to her mom. She claims that he let her, and her mom loved it!”

Should we judge him? If I were royal, I would do some equally sleazy shit. In fact, I do equally sleazy shit without being royal.

She dropped out, and there was much weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth, especially in the black community, from that one guy.

(She pulled a solid 0% among black voters in South Carolina.)

It’ll be interesting to see how the Steyer/Buttigieg/Klobuchar withdrawals affect the race. There are no minor candidates of substance remaining – except perhaps Tulsi, who’s barely a blip on the radar. It’s down to the four cranky old white people, as expected, competing to challenge the other cranky old white guy.

Elizabeth Warren is the only woman in that group, but is also now the only living candidate.

And she ain’t that young herself.

(She’s an old coot, but she’s seven years younger than her nearest Democratic rival, and three years younger than the president.)

I think it’s very safe

For once I agree with his advice.

I also encourage Trump followers to attend large-scale gatherings, particularly if those people are old and have pre-existing medical conditions. The more the merrier!

In fact, you know what would be a real hoot? A massive Trump rally in Wuhan!

I don’t know exactly what USA today thinks this high vote count in SC means, but it’s pretty easy to explain, and the cause is obviously not what they are assuming.

South Carolina has open primaries. In 2016, there was a passionately contested Republican primary in South Carolina. Six different candidates pulled at least 7% of the vote, and emotions ran especially hot between Trump, Cruz and Rubio. Passionate conservatives were voting there, ignoring the Democratic race. About 700,000 people voted in that Republican Primary, roughly twice as many as in the parallel Democratic race. This year there was no Republican primary at all, so more voters crossed over.

Based on the exit polls (2016, 2020), this year’s breakdown was 70-25-5 (Dem-Ind-Rep), while 2016’s breakdown was 82-16-2. The results of that math:

South Carolina Democratic Primary 2020 2016 change
Total votes 538,233 370,904
Democrats 376,763 304,141 +24%
Republicans + Independents 161,470 66,763 +142%

You can see where the bulk of the increase came from.

I don’t think South Carolina is useful as a barometer of the nation’s Democratic passion, and not just for the reasons stated above. I think many states will actually see big turn-outs because of Bernie fever, but there’s no Bernie fever in South Carolina. In fact, Bernie got a much lower percentage of the SC primary vote this year than in he did in 2016 (20% this year, 26% four years ago), and even his raw vote count was not much higher (105,000 in 2020 versus 96,000 in 2016), despite all the increased voters from both sides of the aisle.

South Carolina is Biden country, and you don’t choose Biden out of passion, but out of default. He’s the Chicken Parm of candidates. You choose him because he’s safe and you don’t like anything else on the menu.

Tadeusz, a good friend of mine, had a girlfriend with glowing genitals. He thought he had found the proverbial pot o’ gold until he discovered that she grew up in Chernobyl.

Of course she was not a millipede, or at least she was not BORN a millipede. She did develop some extra limbs after the meltdown. Tadeusz liked that. She had so many arms that she never got cramps from giving a hand job.

She’s dead now. I’ve been meaning to visit her gravesite, but it’s so hard to find an individual grave in those massive, disorganized Eastern European cemeteries. Of course, I could go at night, when she’s still glowing, but I don’t really want to go into an Eastern European cemetery at night, at least not without a crucifix and plenty of garlic. I should, though. Tadeusz says her plot is quite easy to spot after dark. In fact, small airplanes use it to find their way in a fog.