As CNN reports, during the fourth GOP debate “there were no scathing personal attacks, no sensational name-calling and no furious mud-slinging.” But Slate still managed to fill up a 90-second highlight reel.

+ Ben Carson actually said this line: “Where I came from, they call that a lie.” (I’m not even sure he’s from where he says he’s from.) And Marco Rubio made the case for more vocational programs: “Welders make more money than philosophers. We need more welders and less philosophers.” What we really need is fewer candidates. But for what it’s worth, philosophers make more than welders (and both have a better business model than newsletter writers).