Ritter’s rear

Ms. Coast shows off one of the girls

Shailene Woodley in White Bird in a Blizzard (2014)

Romanian gymnast Diana Bulimar

Wait! The University of Evansville is a real thing? I thought it was one of those fake schools they make up for movies, like Faber College. (“Knowledge is Good.”)

To add to the shock value, Kentucky lost that game at home!

Evansville was a 25-point underdog, making the result the third-largest upset in the past 15 seasons.

Venice, one of the world’s unique treasures, is in deep … er … water.

The mayor says severe flooding in Venice that has left much of the Italian city under water is a direct result of climate change. He’s a mayor, not a scientist, so he’s just venting – but he’s may well be right. One thing is certain – rising water levels across the planet are not going to be positive for Venice.

He was recently dating Kate Beckinsale, and now he’s dating a high school girl who is younger than Beckinsale’s daughter. (The high school part is literally true. Kaia Gerber is a student at Malibu High.)

Pete was engaged to Ariana Grande, who might be five feel tall if she stands on her toes, and he’s now dating Kaia Gerber, who is taller than six feet in heels.

One thing about Pete – he does not have a “type.”

I’m no expert on model trains, but that’s the best one I’ve ever seen. It is 124 feet long!

Biden is second in Iowa, Warren a close third. Bernie is in fourth, but a bit behind the others.

Buttigieg has really broken out of the pack. In the two previous Monmouth polls, his support level was 8% and 9%. That has risen to 22%. Buttigieg’s gains since the summer have come across the board, with increasing support coming from nearly every demographic group.

The change from the last Monmouth poll:

Buttigieg +14
Sanders +4
Warren -2
Biden -7
Harris -8

The more Iowans see of Pete, the more they like him.

The opposite is true of Kamala Harris, whose approval has plummeted in the state, and who is alive only because she has not yet admitted death. She was beating both Buttigieg and Sanders in the previous Monmouth poll, and despite having gone “all in” on Iowa, is now behind Amy Klobuchar in the battle for fifth place. (In Monmouth’s summer poll, she was beating Klobuchar 11-3.)

I can see why Bloomberg decided to skip this state. Iowa’s Democrats hate the guy. His net favorable rating in the state is minus 31 (17% favorable, 48 unfavorable), as compared to plus 63 for Pete (73% positive, only 10 negative).

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Buttigieg is also proving formidable in New Hampshire. In the latest poll, he is only a point behind Warren and is a point higher than Bernie. (MoE is 3.8).

One of the most interesting results in New Hampshire is the polling of voters who consider themselves “somewhat liberal” – it is a 4-way tie. I don’t mean a statistical tie, but rather an exact tie. All four of the leaders are preferred by exactly 21% of those polled. The candidates’ ability to sway this bloc could prove to be the deciding factor in the state, as the conservatives shun Sanders and Warren, while the “very liberal” group is strongly coalescing behind Warren.

Like Iowans, New Hampshire Democrats also dislike Bloomberg. This is obviously not the year for New York mayors to shine.

Kamala Harris is even in a worse position in New Hampshire than her current predicament in Iowa. She’s currently polling at 1% in the Granite State, a particularly distressing result when you factor in that 2% of New Hampshire’s eligibles say they will probably vote for Bloomberg in the primary.

So half of Bloomberg – that’s like 2’6″, right?

TONIGHT: Stephen's getting in the impeachment spirit! #LSSC pic.twitter.com/MwL9Qy55c3

— The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) November 13, 2019