Day 248. 27 aircraft on the Al Udeid ramp, two carriers outside the Gulf, six ships hit last week, and the President on tape: "I wouldn't use nuclear."

I promised Cristina no posts this week and broke the promise three times. The best number anyone sent me all year came from a man in Port Aransas who finished 35 rounds of radiation.

Stop refreshing the election map. Here are two books and a Netflix movie about the island where the count never finished, and the family that won by saying nothing.