Odds ‘n’ ends for a pre-Thanksgiving week:

Look, no one likes being the nag or the bearer of bad news or the three-alarm fire guy, but folks, we need to talk.

With its weird slew of vote returns coming in fast and furious, Tuesday night looked for a time like the most 2020 thing ever in this accursed year of 2020: a budding general election disaster leading to a wholesale breakdown of public order, with fellow citizens in a closely divided nation at each others’ throats over the identity of the next president. Daylight, thankfully, brought some clarity.

As we head into Election Day next Tuesday, it’s worth noting that if America chose popularly-elected presidents — that is, the candidate receiving the most votes — this race would effectively be over and Joe Biden would be our presumptive President-elect.