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All the Meet the Press roundtable pundits in the world don’t summarize the current state of the Republican party as well as this single tweet.

Comment from Palin’s Facebook page which is the circus one would expect. Listicle of 18 more at The Awl.

A list of important, funny, overlooked and/or popular things I wrote in 2010. In no particular order:

BP Stock,One Awl Reader, Both Winners Six Months Later - The Awl

Two Hours in Marinette: Lessons From a School Shooting - The Awl

Sarah Palin the TV Star Exposes Sarah Palin the Fake Hunter - The Awl

Sarah Palin’s Accidental Social Network - Esquire

If You Don’t Support Health Care Reform, You Don’t Support the Troops - The Awl

Target Doesn’t Support Gay Equality Because It Never Did - The Awl

After the Apology, Target’s Anti-gay giving Never Stopped  - The Awl

Gap Rebrands itself into Oblivion - Brandchannel

Dystopian Wisconsin: Who is Ron Johnson? - The Awl

Inside Ron Johnson’s Victory Party: Reason Concedes to Ron Johnson - The Awl

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Uh Oh. Somebody at the Tim Pawlenty campaign is going to be getting a lump of coal for Christmas. The link to “Support Tim Pawlenty’s Freedom First PAC” in the Presidential hopeful’s Christmas card/fund-raising email, is broke. The code behind the link is “http:// support tim pawlenty’s freedom first pac         paid for by freedom first pac. not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee.  www.timpawlenty.com  /” Whoopsie! Good thing the Donate Now button below it works.

This brings us to the second question: Is Mary Photoshopped in this Christmas photo? Because it really looks like Mary is Photoshopped in this photo. (Did Pawlenty go “to the cloud?“)

Finally, please note that while the fine print at the bottom of the card may be mistaken as the spirit of Christmas, it is actually a disclaimer about how the Freedom First PAC paid for the Pawlenty family’s Christmas card. And what says protecting the spirit of the holiday from the War on Christmas more than “$5,000 maximum contribution per calendar year is not tax deductible for federal income tax purposes?”

Governor elect Walker, before you take office, I suggest you take a look and see how the last Republican governor of the great state of Wisconsin won numerous reelection campaigns.

Mr. Walker, will you be willing to get blotto and go in front of tens of thousands of other drunks and declare a state Packer day? You better, because that’s 110,000 votes right there.

The November 29 school shooting incident in northern Wisconsin, at time of publication America’s latest, is being spun as a success of the post-Columbine system. A trained school staff and law enforcement levelheadedly defused a heavily armed student prepared to do the worst. But when police finally responded to the 911 call, more than two hours had passed since gunshots were fired. These gunshots were heard by many—although, apparently, not the on-duty police officer stationed at the school…

READ IT at The Awl.

“I would like to say something nice about the killing a turkey. I would like to say that dragging the knife across the bird’s throat is an elegant, silky motion. But that is not true. The bird’s dies loud and messy. It gurgles and twists and makes it known it wants it all to stop.”

Read it all at Esquire… (additional photo after the jump)

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