Fuck Iowa

I really don't see why we then hafta continue our every-fourth-year dance of cartwheels while squealing how "real America!!" Iowa is as we try to pretend how important! and awesome! we think Iowans are, or why it should remain such a disproportionately important step towards choosing our next president. - XMASTIME

Meanwhile, it looks like the rest of the world is finally catching up to Xmastime and realizing that this traditional ass-kissing to Iowa is stupid:

And, indeed, a major culprit in making Iowa so important is the media itself.  I think that many in the media (and, indeed, the public in general) are so smitten with the myth of Iowa’s significance that once they start to realize its deficiencies, they assume that something must have changed over the last three decades plus, but no:  giving Iowa the status it currently has was a mistake from the beginning.

I've never understood why this is - if nothing else, why don't we rotate states every four years?  We claim we don't want anyone or thing too much power, and then we give Iowa this unique place of power every four years.  I'm always reminded of a girl I know who naively asked why they showed every NFL game at the same time; why not spread it out over the week so everyone was sure to be able to watch their team? Ha!