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n2doc's JournalAmid Hawaii delays, the Internet turned to a Google doc for caucus results
Saturday marked the first time Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders swept a full round of caucuses, defeating front-runner Hillary Clinton in all three of the day's presidential contests.
But when the mainstream media was nearly silent on his victory, voters took the electoral process into their own hands.
Overnight, a Google document built by a handful of strangers became the go-to source for the caucus results. Its creators were the first to project Sanders' victory, as the mainstream media waited on stalling, overwhelmed caucus organizers.
As organizers in Hawaii scrambled to gather results, Alec Salisbury compiled his own set of stats from his computer in his Ithaca College dorm. With a group of three to 10 strangers, the 20-year-old college student broke the story of Sanders' landslide victory.
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/2016/03/27/hawaii-caucus-voter-turnout-delays/82316222/
Woman Saves Abandoned Piglet On NJ Highway With Cherry Danish
BLAIRSTOWN, N.J. (CBSNewYork/AP) — A pastry has helped save the life of a pot-bellied piglet that was abandoned on a busy highway in New Jersey.
A motorist called the Barnyard Sanctuary after seeing another driver toss the animal onto the side of Interstate 80 on Wednesday.
Barnyard Sanctuary Director Tamala Lester said on her Instagram page that she received a call from about a piglet running loose at a truck stop off Route 80 in Columbia, New Jersey.
The motorist stood guard by the terrified piglet for 45 minutes until she could get to the scene. Lester says she used a cherry Danish to lure the animal closer and grabbed its hind legs to take it to safety.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/03/25/piglet-saved-by-danish-nj/
Oh No, David Brooks Just Had Another Revelation
BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
A note on the stationery from the Young Fogies Club was slipped under the door this morning. It was short, and it appeared to have been written in a hurry by Moral Hazard, the Irish setter owned for photo op purposes by New York Times columnist David Brooks.
Pierce: Master's gone around the bend. Going out to the fire escape to lick my balls until this passes.
Sincerely, M.H.
Attached was a column from Friday's Times. It began:
Under the bus, Dutch! I've got speaking fees to consider!
Yes, that's David Brooks, tossing Ronald Reagan onto the ash-heap of history. And, yes, I know that the Reagan Orthodoxy was all economic moonshine right from jump, but watching David Brooks panic over the locoweed that long has been a key ingredient in his lifelong ideological Maypo remains a joy to behold.
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http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a43327/david-brooks-reagan-revelation/
Spacecraft spots the tallest mountain seen on Saturn's moon Titan
Anyone up for a low-gravity hike on an icy moon?
The Cassini spacecraft, which has explored Saturn and its moons from close range for about 12 years, spotted a relatively high mountain peak on Titan, the ringed planet's largest moon.
The mountain is about 10,948 feet tall — slightly shorter than Oregon's Mount Hood — and was found in mountainous ridges called the Mithrim Montes, according to NASA
"It's not only the highest point we've found so far on Titan, but we think it's the highest point we're likely to find," Stephen Wall, deputy lead of the Cassini radar team, said in a statement.
Titan is an incredibly hazy planet, with a thick atmosphere rich in nitrogen, so Cassini scientists used the spacecraft's radar instrument to peer through the haze and check out the surface of the world beneath.
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http://mashable.com/2016/03/24/saturn-titan-tallest-mountain/#rbd9UCFfZZq3
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