In this lengthy interview with the president Obama (that I received from a friend and colleague Chris), Bill Maher asks him, among other things, about socialism, atheism, and science, topics that got little or no attention during this campaign.
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We need some light election relief so here is a video for your enjoyment.

I have mentioned before how president Obama seems to be always calm and in control of himself, not allowing others to put him off-balance. In this example, when he was voting early in Chicago, another booth next to him had a young woman also voting. A smart-aleck guy who was the boyfriend of the young woman passed by and ‘warned’ Obama not to touch his girlfriend.
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In the never-ending series that consists of Donald Trump’s hypocrisies, at a rally today he complained about the language that hip-hop star Jay Z used at a Hillary Clinton rally.
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Today being the Saturday before the election, there will likely be a lot of early voting in those states that allow it. According to some estimates, about 34 million people have already voted, which is about 27% of the 125 million total votes cast in the 2012 election. After this weekend, it could well have risen to a third or more of the final total, though some states such as Nevada and Florida ended early voting yesterday (Friday). There are already analyses of early voting patterns and efforts to draw conclusions from the available data with each party trying to spin the data in its favor. These analyses are based on how many people have voted early, which political parties they belong to, and comparisons with previous years, though of course we do not know who people actually voted for.
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Because many years ago my laptop camera light kept coming on inexplicably, I have had a piece of post-it note stuck over the lens of my camera lens long before I learned from Edward Snowden that the NSA and other people can commandeer the camera and use it to observe you and, since they can disable the light, with you being none the wiser.
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Yesterday, the Chicago Cubs beat the Cleveland Indians in the deciding seventh game of the World Series of baseball, an odd title for a contest in which the existence of only one Canadian team prevents the entire season from being an all-American affair. There had been hopes that the local baseball team would add to the national championship already won earlier in the year by the Cavaliers basketball team. In that case, Cleveland had fought back from a 3-1 deficit to win the last three games and the series but this time it was the reverse and the Indians blew a 3-1 lead. I think the reason is the Curse of Wahoo.
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