From the Pork Barrel: Mitt Romney Loves to Laugh

* It's a near-perfect simulation of genuine emotions of humorishness.

* "The only relevant comparison that I see between [Mitt Romney's] campaign and Friday Night Lights is in the character of Buddy Garrity." -Peter Berg, FNL series creator and anti-BuzzBissinger

* Looks like the swings states are slowly but steadily swinging away from Barack Obama. Oh well. Who needs Iowa?

* Todd "Shut That Whole Thing Down" Akin is, it seems, also quite the scholar in the field of evolutionary science.

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