Do you suffer from Electoral Dysfunction? Do you have trouble properly reacting to legitimate voting results? When participating in debates, does it take you longer than expected to really get going and become your true self? Are you finding it increasingly difficult to maintain your winning polling results? In the stress of the moment, are you unable to perform due to a loss of control, and do you then lash out at those who seem more prepared to get nasty? Well, a Dose of Reality might be just the thing you need. Call your doctor if you experience dry-mouth, a sudden decrease in the amount of oxygen you're getting in through your nose, or if your time between Tweets exceeds four hours... While there was a lot of policy talk, just about all the headlines following the third debate are focused on Donald Trump's refusal to say he'd accept the results of an election he has repeatedly argued is rigged. When pressed by moderator Chris Wallace, he explained: "I'll keep you in suspense." The suspense is killing U.S. (And it probably killed his chances to get to the Oval Office.)

+ The Morning After Pile: On Thursday, Trump changed his tune a bit: "I would accept a clear election result, but I would also reserve my right to contest or file a legal challenge in the case of a questionable result."

+ Here's my incisive and entertaining take on the third and final debate: Trump's Towering Inferno.

+ From Digg: Just the good stuff from the final debate. (They mean good in the way Alanis Morissette means ironic.)

+ Trump called Clinton "a nasty woman" which was bad news for him, but pretty good news for Janet Jackson.

If you thought that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, then right about now you're probably feeling like a pageant contestant when someone unexpectedly barges into your dressing room. Everyone saw what happened in Vegas on Wednesday night. And that points to the one thing a huge segment of the American population agrees on: This election is embarrassing.

+ "Trump's allegations that the U.S. election is rigged have particularly resonated across Iranian media." Robin Wright: Iran is enjoying our presidential election (and the first season of House of Cards).

+ NYT: Talking to your therapist about election anxiety.

"Public support for the death penalty is at its lowest level since the Supreme Court suspended capital punishment in 1972." That public support will be put to the test in three states; Nebraska, Oklahoma, and California. Those are the races to watch if you care about the future of the death penalty.

+ Nine more states could legalize pot in November. From Vice: Support of legalized weed is polling high.

"The attacks against political organizations and individuals absorbed much of the media's attention this year. But in many ways, the DNC hack was merely a prelude to what many security researchers see as a still more audacious feat: the hacking of America's most secretive intelligence agency, the NSA." Thomas Rid in Esquire: How Russia Pulled Off the Biggest Election Hack in U.S. History.

I announce my separation from the United States ... America does not control our lives. Enough bullsh*t." Philippines' President Rodrigo Duterte went to China and announced his separation from the United States.

+ The Economist: Duterte's pivot.

"We're on this exponential growth curve, where your mind naturally projects all the way into the future, and you think: We're going to figure this out. In the end, we will know what all these cells are doing, what all these perturbations do. The humbling part is that as we are on this growth curve, we are continually struck by the increasing complexity that is revealed." From Wired: The cure for cancer is mountains of data.

"As the judge in the Stanford rape case learned, along with the judge in the 'affluenza' drunken driving case, the whole world is watching them. A crowd, an angry crowd, can form in a matter of days of people outraged by what they consider a lenient sentence for a heinous crime." We've entered an era when online tools make it easier to know how judges are performing and to build movements that call for their ouster. Is it OK for the public to regularly attempt to impeach judges? Before you answer, consider the judge who just handed out a 60-day sentence to a father found guilty of repeatedly raping his 12 year-old daughter.

"The United States Drug Enforcement Administration wants him for narcotics trafficking; the Haitian government for killing police officers. He led an armed rebellion that ousted a president and has survived, by his count, seven attempts on his life. From his redoubt on the rocky shoreline of southwest Haiti, he has evaded capture for nearly a decade." Then he faced off against Mother Nature. From Azam Ahmed in the NYT: A Haitian Warlord Meets His Match: Hurricane Matthew.

"For the uninitiated, Rao's has been at this corner in East Harlem, an Italian neighborhood that was even larger than Little Italy back in the day, since 1896. (And if you're looking for the safest corner in Manhattan to park your car, look no further.)" From Vanity Fair: Welcome to Rao's, New York's Most Exclusive Restaurant.

+ John Tesar Eats the Most Absurd Fried Foods in Texas.

"It's not difficult to slap a character on a food and get kids to love it. But these days, anybody who tries to sell anything to kids also has to appeal to the parents. This is a way for Disney to prove to Mom and Dad: ‘See? We care about the health of your kids.'" From the LA Times: If your kids don't want broccoli, maybe they'll want Disney broccoli. (My kids would be a lot more likely to eat Musical.ly broccoli.)

+ MetLife is dumping Snoopy.

+ World wine output is expected to hit a four-year low. (In retrospect, we should have been stockpiling booze for 2016.)