Well, the “The next president should choose because the Will of the People!” argument sort of goes out the door next week.
But the technical answer is that yes, the GOP Senate majority could theoretically block any more nominees indefinitely.
I’m predicting that 538 doesn’t go 50/50 this year. That’s about as bold a prediction as I’m willing to make!
What’s the state bug of Texas? Fire ant? Cockroach? Scorpion?
“Come back heah, Sidney! I wanna…chastise ya…”
– Lt Kello in Sweet Smell of Success
Did he put a dent in your “it’s still a coin toss!” T-shirt sales? 
According to this site their state insect is a monarch butterfly.
And is just me, or does having that many symbols just seem silly? One plant, one animal, and that’s enough. Actually, even that’s not necessary.
If Ranger Rick taught me right, those taste horrible and other butterflies mimic them to prevent being eaten.
I drilled into the NY Times prediction methodology (the one that makes me feel warmer and fuzzier), and they use a half-dozen different prediction sites, including Wang’s PEC, and Nate’s 538.
538 is the outlier. The others all have Clinton’s chances at north of 90%.
For what that’s worth.
What’s the state mollusk?
I haven’t found a single insect that tastes good.
Rick Perry.
Paging Mangetout! Paging Mangetout!
Hell, i’ll eat a bug, and a horned toad! And a road-kill armadillo casserole! Nummer-nums!
Off the top of my head, I can think of California’s state bird (valley quail), flower (golden poppy), marine mammal (grey whale) and fossil (saber-toothed tiger).
Juju bees.
You’ve tried them all?
Mangetout got irked at me once for implying that he’d eat anything just becasue of his user name. But I was implying it admiringly. I can tell you that newly emerged cicadas taste vaguely of asparagus and can be quite nice. Unfortunately, I’ve since read that their body concentrates the toxins they absorb during their long underground sojourn, so eating them may not be wise. But they do taste good.
Crickets are similar, but they’re more chitinous.
Hell, Ohio even has a state drink (tomato juice) and a state fossil (trilobite).
“A police state is one that is run by criminals.” - Robert Harris
Anyway it goes, we have the truth that somewhere around half of American voters don’t have the good sense God gave a goose. Lood sing goddam! Fear and loathing in America.
Yeah, yeah, I know, “Thank you, Mr. Sunshine!” Screw you guys, I’m going home! Shit, I am home!
What about all that “free range black lobster” I’ve heard so much about?
Sure, they sting a little (less than east coast bugs, thats for sure), but if you wear gloves, cut the stingers off with pliers, drop them in a sack & then later dump 50-60 in some boiling water…
(15 Full Minutes or half the time your neighbors wife takes to describe her day’s drama)
…to serve with fresh drawn butter… well, just how bad can they be…?
The rest you can just serve over linguine with a cayenne pepper red sauce.
You can tell them its ‘Organic’…
Which it is… 