Here's a thing I just looked up: As a percentage of the total, the Libertarian Party vote dropped by 64% from 2016 to 2020, the Green vote dropped by 76%, and all other third-party votes combined dropped by 71%.
One really big takeaway: Reluctant Trump voters and reluctant Biden voters both mostly held their noses and voted for their guy this time.
(Particularly reluctant Biden voters, BTW. The Green Party vote was just 0.26% of the total, the smallest left third-party haul since 1992.)
Kanye finished seventh, if you're wondering, with about 68,000 votes. That's a little over 0.04%.
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In a situation in which nobody is talking about Al Franken OR Harvey Weinstein, to pipe up to say "I have trouble with the conflation of offenses. I don’t put Al Franken in the same category as Harvey Weinstein" is a hell of a thing.
(Also, analogizing Toobin to Franken isn't a rhetorical move that does either of them any favors.)
Mostly I'm glad to know that they're in a position to make this decision for their own reasons, on their own terms. Spain (the restaurant) is such a sublimely preposterous place that they very much deserve that.
Whenever I go into Spain I feel like I'm stepping back in time to when my dad arrived in NYC from Idaho as a college freshman in 1961. Ancient red-jacket waiters, low ceilings, free tapas with your cheap white wine.
Today in "2021 is going to be so much better than 2020" news: The Brooklyn Cyclones are being promoted to a full-season minor league team! brooklyneagle.com/articles/2020/…
Who knows if they'll actually be back in 2021, and if so whether any of the minors will play full seasons, but ... MAYBE. And for 2022 and thereafter, this is very good news indeed.
(The Brooklyn Cyclones are a Mets-affiliated minor league club that plays in Coney Island. For their entire life as a ballclub, they've been in a short-season league, which has meant they only started playing in late June. But now they're getting a full season—starting in April.)
(I kid. It's a very NYC movie, and I have a soft spot for it, but it's not actually good. Real answers: The Little Fugitive, The Apartment, Summer of Sam, Taking of Pelham 1-2-3, Desperately Seeking Susan.)
Back to mention All That Jazz, The Warriors, and Liquid Sky.
Fascinating. When I first saw the "candle reviewers are complaining they have no smell" tweet a couple of days ago, I assumed it was either cherry-picked data or maybe someone pulling our legs. But these stats are ... kind of compelling.
It should be noted that the numbers in this particular chart are really small—it'd only take a few dozen "these candles have no smell!" to produce the results shown here.
But the drop-off we see here—in raw numbers of bad reviews for scented candles specifically, whether or not lack of smell is mentioned—look pretty dramatic, and involve a much larger sample.
Here's @DeanBrowningPA's "I'm a black gay guy" tweet, since deleted.
And here's a selection of times @DanPurdy322, whose account is brand new and who replies to @DeanBrowningPA A LOT, has described himself as a black gay guy.