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US blogger on aging, Ronni Bennett, died last night at 79: https://www.timegoesby.net/ She got some Washington Post coverage, and her pancreatic cancer diagnosis got her into my Hare's team last year. She seemed to be doing okay with it though, for quite some time.

That reminds me... both Liz Taylor and Paul Newman in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" - both absolutely gorgeous.

I have submitted a team for the second round... But I guess I need to see if the team gets cleared...because it's bonkers.

Tom Hardy, Ryan Gosling.... and once Halle Berry, that was just a phase...

Third loss of my preliminary 2021 team in as many weeks... I kind of wanted to go for someone I share the birthday with. Oh yeah, committee, yaddayadda...

Sad for this particular person, but not sad for winning the competition, see you in the next round, and thanks!

Noel Conway is sad that he doesn't live in New Zealand anymore, where he now could get euthanized: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/terminally-ill-campaigner-slams-unfair-22933512

Derek Draper's first word after 7 months was "pain". The second one was "pain": https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-kate-garraways-husband-derek-22934379

If anyone has a place of death, let me know. Would be a shame to update Nobby without it.

Those will be two long months for me. As long as Susan Bayh is alive (or doesn't obit), I should remain the favourite. But if not, there are too many possibilities and still too much time to beat me. On the other hand, Ady Barkan looks very, very bad in today's Rolling Stone interview. He's been declining a lot in the past month or two. I hope he can at least see a Biden win, but he hasn't got much time left. But might slip into 2021 yet!

Jacques Delors again. I guessed 16 hits this year. So, one more.

Quite a few hits for me lately, but without a daily double I can not fight for the title.

You know, as we end the year in a global lockdown, I could imagine a record participation in the DDP next year. And I think there will be lots of teams spending a lot of time on research in December. For example, I don't even know if I will be able or allowed to visit my family this Christmas. I'm looking at a year-end holiday of two weeks with nothing else to do but googling stuff (well, and a little gaming and maybe eventually getting around to watch Better Call Saul).

I actually wondered if the "being alone at Christmas" might have an opposite effect this time. I mean, not being able to visit anyone is not as bad as not having anybody to visit.

Still wrong, that 85% was before the Comey thing. On Nov 3rd it was down to 66,9%. It's in the article you cite! I remember very clearly that Nate emphasized Trump's chances more than others. Many people were very angry at him.

Even a Sun obit: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/13046412/billy-joe-shaver-dead-81-stroke/

Last year, Stevie Nicks was hospitalized with double pneumonia and she has "compromised lungs". https://www.music-news.com/news/UK/135560/Stevie-Nicks-was-hospitalised-after-2019-Rock-Roll-Hall-of-Fame-induction Possible 2021 Covid fatality?

I think that must be a different Nate Silver.

Well, every prime minister is automatically thread-worthy. We're just being a little ahead of time here.

Another shortlist loss. His cancer came back recently. His fate was sealed.

There's a reddit subforum for that: https://www.reddit.com/r/restofthefuckingowl/

Those were some long "18 months to live"...

His 2nd child has been born: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54703478

Poll shows Biden extending his lead to 11 points: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/27/cnbc-all-america-economic-survey-biden-still-holds-a-big-lead-over-trump-but-race-could-tighten.html Averages... look at the averages.

Well, there were worse threads than this, including some by me, but not many. It certainly doesn't seem to amount to a new Chappaquiddick incident.