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"FacebookPinterest\n\nI know, I know. I bet when you first saw this magazine, whether you grabbed it hot off an airport newsstand or yanked it from the stuffed turkey cavity of your mailbox, you glowered for a second, and said:\n\n Don&amp;#39;t even, GQ.\n\n Just...don&amp;#39;t.\n\n Don&amp;#39;t even try to tell me this is a special issue. Because every issue of GQ is the definitive Style Bible, 24/7/360, amen.\n\nAnd I would not argue with the sweep of your generous assessment, my kind and magnanimous magazine-buying brother. Instead, I would merely ask you to check out the pages inside and witness our enhanced style coverage\u2014enhanced, we hope, by way of being more useful, more concrete, creative, thorough, helpful, and packed with information you can act on.\n\n (Wait. Do you know how hard it is for a New Yorker right now not to say Linformation? That&amp;#39;s how we talk now. That&amp;#39;s how my accountant talks. Yo, let&amp;#39;s do some Lincome tas! If you&amp;#39;re speaking to a friend in another state who isn&amp;#39;t constantly thinking of Jeremy Lin, you actually have to filter your thoughts. Or get a translator. Who speaks your Linguage. Your Lin-gua franca.)\n\n(Help.)\n\nOne highlight that best captures the spirit and single-minded mission of this issue: The GQ 100, a carefully cultivated list, edited by Will Welch and aided in every sartorial way by our fashion department, of the one hundred most stylish things\u2014and no, we don&amp;#39;t just mean expensivo clothes\u2014that a man should seek out in this, The Year of Our Lin.\n\nLike all competitive men, I love a contest, and before I run out of room or patriotism, I did want to tell you that I am starting a national competition for the first person who can locate Mitt Romney&amp;#39;s soul.\n\nNow, people say Romney can&amp;#39;t connect to human beings, but he&amp;#39;s not trying to connect to humans. He&amp;#39;s just trying to connect to an assemblage of voting blocs from optimized electoral districts, as culled from the best available data, and if those voters turn out to be human: Why, that&amp;#39;s super! He happens to be very prohuman and has an excellent record vis-\u00E0vis humans and such, you can look it up.\n\nStill, if you were a data guy, you&amp;#39;d have to surmise that Romney is almost certainly made of bolted metal and abandoned radio parts. Nothin&amp;#39; wrong with that! Except that every once in a while you see what happens when his computer programming goes awry, as it did recently when he stun-gunned a crowd of Michiganders. He was telling the crowd how much he loves Michigan, because gosh, it&amp;#39;s a wonderful state, you&amp;#39;ve got people and sidewalks here, and the people walk, and that&amp;#39;s just incredible. And God bless Michigan, you&amp;#39;ve got the most amazing trees, I love the trees here, because the trees are the right height, not all dwarfy like they are in other places that I also like. And the bodies of water and the stones. Where else do you have them, except for other places. America. Michigan. I love it. Love both of them. Especially Michigan. And America. Because here, you have so many things. The lakes and forests! Which I failed to mention admiring. Such a bounty. I salute the forests, and I bow before the lakes, they are magical, not just the Great Lakes, which have always been a big, big part of my life, but the inland lakes, which are so special, I LOVE INLAND LAKES!!!!, and, you know, cars, I have loved them all my life, the way they are built here in Michigan and the way you have to drive them on the roads. Which I love.\n\nI was so exhausted by his litany of love that I thought I might eventually begin to hate Michigan. Which I love!\n\nSo the contest. I want to be fair here. I am not looking for a birth certificate. I just want to see some soul.\n\nThe rules of our little contest are simple. Rule one: Have you seen his soul anywhere? Rule two: Please tell me where it is.\n\nWhoever makes the most convincing case along with some kind of proof\u2014 say, you have unearthed a video clip in which he appears to move his eyebrows; you have an audio tape of him saying &amp;quot;hot damn!&amp;quot;\u2014and if I am convinced by your convincingness, then you win, and I will ask Mitt to pay you $10,000.\n\n Bring me the soul of Mitt Romney!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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