Month: December 2010

Beyond Hackery, Ctd

Domenico Montanaro counters Halperin's goddawful column with, ya know, facts:

While some think President Obama's "core" coalition "has been shattered," here are some numbers from our latest NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll that looks at Obama's approval among some of those "core" groups:

– Blacks: 90% approve/6% disapprove
– Democrats: 82/12
– Liberals: 79/16
– Latinos: 56/33
– Post grads: 56/41
– UPDATE: 18-29: 53/38
– UPDATE 2: NBC's Ana Maria Arumi notes that in the 2010 midterm exit polls, voters 18-29 said they approved of the president's job by a 62/38 margin, which is close to how they voted in 2008 — 66/32
– Women: 52/43
– 18-34: 49/43

Money quote:

As Republican pollster Bill McInturff, who conducts the NBC/WSJ poll with Democratic pollster Peter D. Hart, said after the poll, “It’s a reminder again … for a guy who took a shellacking [in the midterms], he’s got a pretty strong core pulse.”

The View From Your Window Contest: Winner #27

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A reader writes:

This looks like it could be any one of a thousand different college campuses.  At any rate, I’ll (wildly) guess this is Bryn Mawr. I dated a girl there 15+ years ago, and it sorta looks familiar.

Another writes:

Maybe it’s because I’m neck deep in exams, but this looks very much like a view out of the windows of Firestone Library at Princeton.  I could be delusional from all the all-nighters, though.

Another:

Leaves changing colors but dude still wearing shorts – gotta be the South! Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina?

Another:

I wanted to cry initially because the clues seemed so paltry.  But then an epiphany: The dude jogging is wearing the University of North Carolina Tar Heel’s colors.  Gotta be somewhere on that campus.

Another:

This is my favorite VFYW picture yet.  So evocative of college memories and that all too short but wonderful late autumn time where the weather is crisp, the trees are beautiful, the final exams are lurking but with Winter Break ahead and 3-4 weeks off with nothing to do but visit family and old friends and eat, drink, sleep and play.  Can you imagine having 21 days off now and how wonderful that would be?

All that said, I have no clue on this one.  How about Chapel Hill?

Another:

I’m a loyal reader of your blog and have people here at work who guess amongst ourselves every week for this contest.  I am pretty sure of the answer this week since I’m pretty sure it is my alma mater.  This is a picture from a first flood window in Buttrick Hall on the Vanderbilt University campus in Nashville, TN.  The picture is pointing northeast.  The building to the far right is Garland Hall. I’ll include my address below for my prize if I win, although I have to assume alot of Vandy people have already sent in their guesses as well.

Another:

Univ of Utah

This is the first time I have made a guess for the VFYW Contest, and it is only because of this photo I took last autumn.  So here it goes: Student Union at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City.

Another:

That building on the right screams University of Florida to me.  I don’t remember the trees taking on that color, but they very well may in the later fall.  The young dude on the left wearing shorts further supports my inclination.  I’m just getting really really hard vibes that this is my favorite place in the world.

As to where the shot itself is taken from:  I’m going to have to guess that it’s Library West (which was only open my freshman year, ’01, but has since finished its remodeling phase.)  It is definitely one of maybe two or three buildings that could produce such a view of Plaza of the Americas (where my Cuban-exile parents met, btw!).

But I’m worried cus I don’t see any Spanish Moss …

Another:

I was originally going to guess Princeton simply because I know it has elm trees (and I’m not Screen shot 2010-12-07 at 11.45.09 AM eligible because I won contest #3). And once again I’ve never been there, but one Google search for “elms on campus” goes straight to a similar photo at Penn State and an entire web site dedicated to all its elms. Based on the attached map, I’m guessing it’s the double column of trees on the west side of the mall at Old Main, but I expect you’ll have many scores of more precise locations than this one from old Nittany Lions … or from people far away from Pennsylvania who saw that view every fall on another campus that still has those stately old endangered trees.

Another:

The picture certainly looks like the quad of a Northeast college campus in autumn, especially because the colonial building on the right. I think the trees are Japanese maples. I am going to guess that this is my alma mater’s quad then: Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, possibly taken from Rockefeller Hall.

Another:

An allée of beautiful, mature ginkgos in what looks like a university campus.  I believe this may have been taken at the University of Tokyo, in Tokyo, Japan.

Another:

I am almost 100% positive about this one. I immediately recognized it as a college campus. I quizzed my father, a botanist, about the trees, which he identified as ginkgos (“I hope they are males, because the females smell like dog shit!”). So I started searching for college or university campuses with ginkgo populations. During one of these searches (on Google Image) I found this photo, which looks quite similar to the content photo but from a different angle. It’s Olin Library, on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis. A satellite search on Google Maps pretty much confirms it. I even bit the bullet and did a schematic marking the direction from which the photo was taken and the locations of the people in the photo (switch to satellite view). I’m attaching a screenshot too, just in case:

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Another:

I looked at this picture and my heart almost stopped: I have seen this view thousands of times (no exaggeration). It’s the view from Olin Library, in the heart of Washington University in St. Louis, looking east. At the end of the path is Duncker Hall, home of the English Dept., where I spent many happy years getting a PhD in English, and where I met my husband. It was actually in Olin Library that he asked me out on our first date; it was at the end of a Renaissance Lit seminar which for reasons that I cannot recall anymore, was meeting in a seminar room in the Library. Duncker Hall blends into Eads Hall, home to the Foreign Languages Department, where my father-in-law spent four decades teaching Latin American Studies. The gingko trees are sublime (though being female, they shed their fruits in the late summer, and create a godawful stink when trodden underfoot).

Incidentally, I’ve written in to VFYW once before; I’m the college professor whose travel-themed Composition classes have been looking at the contest every week as a end-of-class-period fun exercise. (We guessed Galveston a couple of weeks back but didn’t write in.) Next week we have our last class meetings. I’m going to have fun having my students try to guess this one!

Another:

I knew exactly where this was the instant I saw it! I usually suck at guessing the locations, so I’m excited to see one that I can pinpoint to the nearest square foot! This is taken from the Ginkgo Reading Room in the Olin Library on the campus of Washington University. The view is looking east, towards downtown St. Louis and the Gateway Arch. My boyfriend and I graduated from WashU in 2007, and we both have fond memories of 2AM study sessions in this library. He took this picture in the room shortly after the library was renovated in 2004 (I was probably studying Organic Chemistry just out of frame):

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Another:

Finally, all of those hours in the library paid off!  Although, if I’m being honest, I usually studied in the basement of this building which doesn’t have any windows.  This photo is taken looking east from the ground floor of Olin Library (which is the third of that building’s five floors).  From this view you can see Dunker Hall on the left, where I had classes, and Eads Hall on the right, where I occasionally ate lunch.  The entrance to the quad can be seen at the end of the tree lined path.  For good measure I just showed the photo to my wife, another alum, and she agrees: unmistakeably Wash U.  Thanks for the memories.

Another:

To a botanist, the ginkgo tree is unique for its leaf shape, bark, branches, and bright yellow fall color, all obvious in this view.  A Google image search for “ginkgo walkway” brought up a picture of this path on the Washington University campus as the first response (perhaps due to your many readers).  A second search for “Washington University ginkgo” brought up the Olin Reading Room, from which the picture was taken, and a poem, “The Consent,” by Howard Nemerov, WU faculty member and U.S. Poet Laureate, about these very ginkgo trees:

Late in November, on a single night
Not even near to freezing, the ginkgo trees
That stand along the walk drop all their leaves
In one consent, and neither to rain nor to wind
But as though to time alone: the golden and green
Leaves litter the lawn today, that yesterday
Had spread aloft their fluttering fans of light.

What signal from the stars? What senses took it in?
What in those wooden motives so decided
To strike their leaves, to down their leaves,
Rebellion or surrender? and if this
Can happen thus, what race shall be exempt?
What use to learn the lessons taught by time.
If a star at any time may tell us: Now.

Many poets become botanists because they have an place in their hearts for the attention a poet can give to a tree. The ginkgo is especially worthy of that attention.  Global in extent before the rise of mammals, it was thought extinct by European botanists, known only through the fossil record, until discovered growing in Buddhist gardens in China, from which it has again spread to gardens, streets, and campuses around the world.

Thanks from a botanist for your reminder of the pleasures found in nature, poetry, and work.  Now back to it.

Another:

When I was a grad student there in the ’90s, older Asian women would gather the gingko berries, the smell of which was memorably compared to human vomit by poet Howard Nemerov.

Another:

This is a true Proustian moment, as the sickly sweet smell of the gingko trees has been unleashed somewhere in my brain.

Another:

I’ll be damned if that isn’t the view out of my old university’s library, looking down the path toward the Brookings Quadrangle between the rows of ginkgo trees.  They all shed their leaves simultaneously at a certain point in the fall, and I’ve always wanted to witness that one moment when those trees all suddenly shuck and denude themselves like corn husks.

Oh, what fun!  My friends at Wash U always said that a social engagement never went by where I failed to mention the Daily Dish; it’s a delight to see my alma mater featured so prominently on the blog.

Another:

I remember one of these walks in particular, as I came in to campus early on a Saturday morning, right after the first hard freeze of the year. The yellow leaves on these trees had fallen en masse, turning the walkway into the yellowbrick road, and I was the first one to walk through them. It was sublime.

Another:

I haven’t seen that alley of gingko for 34 years, but apparently nothing has changed.  It’s impossible to forget the yellow transparency and tenacity of their fall foliage.  The only thing about this photo that does not compare with my memory is the vision of my professor, the poet Howard Nemerov, walking the path under a blazing blue autumn sky, the same color as his eyes.

Another:

I’m touched to see you include a picture that’s so close to the heart of those of us from my alma mater. I can note that the second tree on the right is an excellent tree to climb and read a book.

Another:

The building to the right is where I had most of my classes, and a favorite memory is having class outdoors underneath the trees.

Another:

The picture has been taken facing east from a window in the John M. Olin library back toward the main quadrangle, which was, after construction, leased to the organizers of the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair to be used as the event’s headquarters. At the same time, the 1904 Olympics would be held at the school’s Francis Field. Ridgely Hall (at the far end of the walk) and Holmes Lounge (the building on the right in the photo and the campus’s original library) were the location of the International Congress of Arts and Sciences, a week-long academic conference held in association with the World’s Fair. When I was a student pursuing my Ph.D. in British History at Wash U in the early ’90s, the location of this window was the main entrance to the building, so I walked down this avenue many times (after a major renovation, the main entrance is now on the south side of the building).

In the romantic/tragic story category: Holmes Lounge is now a student lounge and I spent many hours between classes there with my friends, including my first wife, who died shortly after I completed my degree and shortly before she completed hers. There is now a commemorative brick in her honor in the plaza outside the entrance to the lounge near the far end of the walk in this photo.

Another:

IMG00317-20101204-1327 As a grad student at Wash U, I pass through the area of the original picture almost every day, and I stopped by today on my way to lunch.  I’ve attached a picture of the window this was taken through from the outside as well as a view from a window of the original view from the window.

As a physicist, I also have to point out that the building you see to the right is Eads Hall, where Arthur Holly Compton did a series of experiments  and discovered the Compton Effect (a type of scattering of x-rays and gamma rays in matter).  Compton later received the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics for the work he did in that building.

Another:

I don’t know if I’m allowed to send in an addendum to my VFYW entry, but it’s worth noting that, because of the curious political boundaries in the St. Louis area, the photograph was technically taken in unincorporated St. Louis *County*, Missouri (I checked on the county map).  The art school and some parking lots at the university are in St. Louis City, the undergraduate dorms are in Clayton, and the off-campus administration buildings are mostly in University City.

Another:

This is my college! I frequently study in that room or near those trees and have great memories of this area. It’s amazing how I often see these contests and think that since I’ve never left the country or traveled that much that I would never know the place. Then the contest takes place just a ten-minute walk from my apartment!

The following entry is simply too unique not to award the window book to. Our winner writes:

Could I be the first VFYW contest submitter to stumble across the image while sitting in the exact Photo on 2010-12-05 at 15.48 room it was taken in?  This window is in the Gingko Reading Room in the main library of my school, Washington University in Saint Louis, where I happen to be sitting right now.  Alas, most of the yellow is gone (see attached), but the image I snapped of the same walkway about a year and a month ago sits as my phone background, a reminder of Midwestern Falls.

What inquisitive soul reads the Daily Dish alongside me?

Running Out The Clock

Pareene glances at his watch:

The brilliant thing about the run-out-the-clock strategy [on DADT] is that you don’t even have to bother to come up with a reason to oppose changing a deeply unpopular policy! So while John McCain gets a lot of justified heat for his craven reversals, everyone else can quietly have no position whatsoever beyond “we have other things to take care of first” or “let’s not rush anything.”

Jim Burroway fumes:

[DADT repeal] not on Reid’s radar. Especially now that he can’t milk it for the midterm elections. Kerry [Eleveld of The Advocate] also notes that DADT repeal hasn’t made the White House’s list of “must-haves” for the lame duck session. In fact, the White House’s list just happens to match Reid’s list to a tee. It’s also not among the White House’s talking points, nor does Press Secretary Robert Gibbs mention it unless asked directly — usually by Eleveld.

 This can be done. There is more time to do it after the tax cut deal. I haven’t given up yet.

Dissents Of The Day

A reader writes:

You said that you "don't see this as surrender. I see this as Obama's cold-blooded pragmatism. Why is this still news?"

My biggest problem with Obama not doing more to use the tax-cut debate as an issue against Republicans (and essentially capitulating to all of their demands on this issue) isn't that it's not somehow ideologically pure – that it doesn't, say, line up with what he promised in 2008, or with Democratic principles more generally.  My complaint (and Rich's complaint as I understood it) is that Obama's not being as cold-blooded as he could be in this case.  What better way to highlight Republican hypocrisy and to gain the high-ground on a whole host of issues than to refuse to extend tax cuts for those making over $250,000? 

– After two years of Republicans tut-tutting about deficits, why wouldn't Obama want to spend as much time as possible pointing out how hypocritical Republicans are being on this issue?  What better way to put the lie to their political rhetoric from the last two years?

– After two years of Republican carping that the President has failed to do enough on jobs, why wouldn't Obama want to propose that a specified amount of the money saved by raising taxes on those over $250,000 will go toward creating an infrastructure bank and a whole host of tax cuts for small businesses (and then stand by and let the Republicans vote against it)?  What better way to create a contrast going forward, ('my priority is creating jobs; their priority is tax-cuts for millionaires) when inevitably the unemployment rate in 2012 will be greater than 8 percent?

By allowing all tax-cuts to continue, Obama is missing both of these opportunities and he's weakening his position going forward (on deficits, on jobs, on his perceived ability to lead).  Will there be other possibilities to draw these contrasts in the future?  Quite likely.  Will they provide Obama with the opportunity to create as clear of a contrast with Republicans?  Not likely.  A real clear-blooded pragmatist would leap at this opportunity.

Another writes:

If Obama agrees to these tax cuts that will benefit primarily the wealthy, and then shifts focus on our long-term debt reduction (i.e. Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security), he will lose a lot of support from his base. The long-term debt reduction will mostly mean to the president's base a reduction of the social safety net, at the expense of the middle class to benefit the wealthy. I don't know how he will get re-elected.

Another:

Just out of curiosity, have you ever seen anything the president has done as surrender?  Because every time something happens, I seem to remember reading "This is just him playing 3D chess in the dark, with Jedi mind tricks and thinking ahead to the next game of backgammon where he will show us his inarguable genius…"  And then we get rolled. 

I'm on the team, man.  I didn't expect super-magical black Jesus to come in and save us from ourselves; I just wanted a functioning president who stood up for what was right every now and then. I'm having a hard time keeping even that little bit of faith now.

One last doozy of a dissent:

Despite everything, and despite all the evidence to the contrary, you continue to defend Barack Obama as some sort of great strategic thinker.

To begin from quoting from your response to David Weigel: "He's saying that he'd prefer to raise taxes on those earning more than $250,000 a year, but cannot in this political climate at this particular time." So, when he has 70% of Americans behind him, when he has more Democrats in Congress than he is ever likely to have again, he cannot raise taxes on the richest 1% of America? If not now, then pray tell when?

That said, Weigel is wrong when he says that Obama is affirming that tax cuts stimulate the economy. (They don't. In fact, tax hikes in living memory – post-WW2, Reagan's 1982-86 corrections, and the tax hikes under GHW Bush and Clinton – led to long periods of prosperity, while tax cuts under Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Reagan and GW Bush led to stagnation at best. But I digress.) What Obama is truly affirming is that not only will he not take a firm stand on anything whatever, no matter how popular, but that he will actively handicap any group of his fellow Democrats or supporters who tries to take such a stand.

To quote from the Frank Rich op-ed which started this discussion:

The cliché criticisms of Obama are (from the left) that he is a naïve centrist, not the audacious liberal that Democrats thought they were getting, and (from the right) that he is a socialist out to impose government on every corner of American life. But the real problem is that he’s so indistinct no one across the entire political spectrum knows who he is. A chief executive who repeatedly presents himself as a conciliator, forever searching for the “good side” of all adversaries and convening summits, in the end comes across as weightless, if not AWOL. A Rorschach test may make for a fine presidential candidate  when everyone projects their hopes on the guy. But it doesn’t work in the Oval Office: These days everyone is projecting their fears on Obama instead.

What Obama has exercised for the past two years is ANTI-leadership. When his followers have overwhelmingly supported a particular option, he has compromised it away to conservatives in exchange for nothing. When his followers try to take action on their own, he pulls the rug out from under them. When they try to hold him accountable, he brushes them off as "the professional left." Thanks to this "leadership", liberals have gone from loud and united to discouraged and silent, while Republicans have rallied, united, and energized their own base into the only functional political force in America.

But then you claim, "'Non-argumentative reasonableness' so far has prevented a second great depression, rescued Detroit, bailed out the banks, pitlessly isolated Tehran's regime, exposed Netanyahu, decimated al Qaeda's mid-level leadership in Pakistan and Afghanistan, withdrawn troops from Iraq on schedule, gotten two Justices on the Supreme Court, cut a point or two off the unemployment rate with the stimulus, seen real wages for those employed grow, presided over a stock market boom and record corporate profits, and maneuvered a GOP still intoxicated with failed ideology to become more and more wedded to white, old evangelicals led by Sarah Palin. And did I mention universal health insurance – the holy grail for Democrats for decades?" Well, let's take these point by point:

* Second Great Depression – still too early to tell if it has been averted or merely postponed. A gridlocked Congress might still bring it about – gridlock thanks to a mid-term election which Obama quite clearly lost for his party.

* Rescued Detroit – he gets credit for this, but how difficult is it to do with a 59-seat majority in the Senate and a massive House majority?

* Bailed out the banks – Leaving aside whether or not it was a good idea the way it was done, this was begun by Dubya, not Obama. No credit where it's not due.

* Isolated Tehran's regime – Which has accomplished what, exactly? Despite the 2009 green rising, the totalitarian regime is stronger than ever and still working towards nuclear weapons capacity, with not a single actual setback.

* Exposed Netanyahu – More like, exposed how Israel exercises veto power over all American foreign policy. Right now Netanyahu looks to the world to be a more powerful man than Obama.

* Decimated al Qaeda's mid-level leadership – Leaving aside the question of whether or not McCain or another Republican would have done the same… has this actually done anything to reduce the threat of terrorism? Based on the TSA grope-scandal, I'd say NOT.

* Withdrawn troops from Iraq on schedule – Bush's schedule, not the one Obama campaigned on, and with 50,000 troops remaining indefinitely. No action, no credit.

* Two Supreme Court justices – Better than the Republicans, but wouldn't any Democrat have done better? And wouldn't any other Democrat have picked people besides Sotomayor and Kagin, both of whom are on record as supporting unlimited executive power? And let's not forget the DOZENS of lower courts still WITHOUT justices because Obama refuses to consider recess appointments to get around Republican obstructionism.

* Cut unemployment – Unemployment today, as I type this, is the same official level to within a percentage point as when Obama took office. And that leaves aside the issue of how little Obama had to do with creating the actual stimulus package- he left that almost entirely to Pelosi and Reid, only acting to mandate tax cuts which have proved ineffective.

* Real wage growth – Bullshit. Wages outside income for the top 2% continue to stagnate or fall.

* Preside over a stock market boom – A boom triggered, in essence, by giving the super-rich huge amounts of bailout money, protecting bank CEOs from the consequences of their actions, and blocking any financial reforms that would actually address the causes of the market crash. In short: recovery for the super-rich, but not for anyone else.

* Palinization of the Republicans – And this is a good thing HOW? Obama has both made the Republicans even more insane and, at the same time, discredited his own party to the point that voters are ready to put the crazy people in power.

* Universal health insurance – Everyone's forced to buy corporate health insurance with no guarantee that it'll actually pay off when it's needed, with no functional brake or restriction on rising insurance premiums, and above all with no curb whatsoever on hospital, pharmaceutical, and healthcare corporations charging all the market will bear for health care. (And when it comes to a person's life, "all the market will bear" equals "every penny you have and then some.") Oh, and not only is there no guarantee that government aid will be enough for the poor to buy insurance, but that aid comes only in tax rebates- so you have to have money to get the aid in the first place.

In all these things, there is little or nothing that any other Democrat, any Democrat at all, could not have done better or more effectively. Several of these things shouldn't have been done at all. In exchange for these "accomplishments," we have protection and endorsement of the prior administration's torture and imprisonment tactics, a totally de-energized liberal base, a united and rabid Republican base, a stagnant economy, and a five-year extension of war in Afghanistan… and, come January 3, divided government and an end to any hope of further advancement of liberal goals.

You praise Obama's "pragmatism", but to the rest of us it seems more like Obama asking the Republicans' permission before doing anything. What should have been a Democratic triumph has turned into a handful of empty victories and a raft of stunning defeats. And the single person most responsible is Barack Obama, for providing the kind of leadership that ends with no followers remaining.

The View From Your Window Contest: An Archive

A reader writes:

After reading you for many years, I have been taken over by the VFYW contest.  I actively search for the photo of the week and the responses from your readers.  Could you install a separate link that archives all of the old contests?

Here to serve:

2010

Contest #1 – June 9

Contest #2 – June 15

Contest #3 – June 22

Contest #4 – June 29

Contest #5 – July 7

Contest #6 – July 13

Contest #7 – July 20

Contest #8 – July 27

Contest #9 – August 3

Contest #10 – August 10

Contest #11 – August 17

Contest #12 – August 24

Contest #13 – August 31

Contest #14 – September 7

Contest #15 – September 14

Contest #16 – September 21

Contest #17 – September 28

Contest #18 – October 5

Contest #19 – October 12

Contest #20 – October 19

Contest #21 – October 26

Contest #22 – November 2

Contest #23 – November 9

Contest #24 – November 16

Contest #25 – November 23

Contest #26 – November 30

Contest #27 – December 7

Contest #28 – December 14

Contest #29 – December 21

Contest #30 – December 28

2011

Contest #31 – January 4

Contest #32 – January 11

Contest #33 – January 18

Contest #34 – January 25

Contest #35 – February 1

Contest #36 – February 8

Contest #37 – February 15

Contest #38 – February 22

Contest #39 – March 1

Contest #40 – March 8

Contest #41 – March 15

Contest #42 – March 22

Contest #43 – March 29

Contest #44 – April 5

Contest #45 – April 12

Contest #46 – April 19

Contest #47 – April 26

Contest #48 – May 3

Contest #49 – May 10

Contest #50 – May 17

Contest #51 – May 24

Contest #52 – May 31

Contest #53 – June 7

Contest #54 – June 14

Contest #55 – June 21

Contest #56 – June 28

Contest #57 – July 5

Contest #58 – July 12

Contest #59 – July 19

Contest #60 – July 26

Contest #61 – August 2

Contest #62 – August 9

Contest #63 – August 16

Contest #64 – August 23

Contest #65 – August 30

Contest #66 – September 6

Contest #67 – September 13

Contest #68 – September 20

Contest #69 – September 27

Contest #70 – October 4

Contest #71 – October 11

Contest #72 – October 18

Contest #73 – October 25

Contest #74 – November 1

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Contest #76 – November 15

Contest #77 – November 22

Contest #78 – November 29

Contest #79 – December 6

Contest #80 – December 13

Contest #81 – December 20

Contest #82 – December 27

2012

Contest #83 – January 3

Contest #84 – January 10

Contest #85 – January 17

Contest #86 – January 24

Contest #87 – January 31

Contest #88 – February 7

Contest #89 – February 14

Contest #90 – February 21

Contest #91 – February 28

Contest #92 – March 6

Contest #93 – March 13

Contest #94 – March 20

Contest #95 – March 27

Contest #96 – April 3

Contest #97 – April 10

Contest #98 – April 17

Contest #99 – April 24

Contest #100 – May 1

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Contest #102 – May 15

Contest #103 – May 22

Contest #104 – May 29

Contest #105 – June 5

Contest #106 – June 12

Contest #107 – June 19

Contest #108 – June 26

Contest #109 – July 3

Contest #110 – July 10

Contest #111 – July 17

Contest #112 – July 24

Contest #113 – July 31

Contest #114 – August 7

Contest #115 – August 14

Contest #116 – August 21

Contest #117 – August 28

Contest #118 – September 4

Contest #119 – September 11

Contest #120 – September 18

Contest #121 – September 25

Contest #122 – October 2

Contest #123 – October 9

Contest #124 – October 16

Contest #125 – October 23

Contest #126 – October 30

Contest #127 – November 6

Contest #128 – November 13

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Contest #130 – November 27

Contest #131 – December 4

Contest #132 – December 11

Contest #133 – December 18

Contest #134 – January 1

Contest #135 – January 8

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