Friday News Roundup

- 4 days from election day now, and the Republican and Democratic noise machines have gone relatively silent as the campaigns shift into GOTV (now the abbreviation for God Outs Tele Vangelists) For example, some of the lead stories on CNN.com this morning: Snoop Dogg arrested for carrying baton, Shakira wins four Latin Grammys (evidently, her hips are still trustworthy), and that whole gay evangelist thing. Oh, I almost forgot, when the President authorized declassification of some documents in the spring to bolster his motives for going to war in 2003, apparently they contained info that could help Iran build a nuclear weapon. Hey, has John Kerry said anything stupid in the last 24 hours?

- The world will run out of fish by 2050. Who cares? Real Americans eat pork.

- Kanye West lost out on the Best Video award at the MTV Europe, um, awards, and stormed on stage during the presentation to the winners and said his video "cost a million dollars. Pamela Anderson was in it. I was jumping across canyons." He of course was referring to his sex video with Pamela Anderson in it.

- On Monday I will make my final election day predictions, and on Tuesday, for the first time in four years, I will not be making Get Out the Vote calls or holding a sign or tallying results on an Excel spreadsheet. And, predictably, this will be the first election the Democrats will win.