Today on the Dish, we rounded up the web's best reax on Obama's Tucson speech, where he called for a more civil and honest discourse, and Andrew characterized him as the most Christian president in recent memory. Conor proposed a civility pact for the blogosphere, Limbaugh's poster contradicted his defense, and this video evidenced how … Continue reading The Daily Wrap
Chatroulette, its glory days behind it, tries to monetize more schlongs.
Today on the Dish, Andrew decried the derailing of the DADT repeal by a few homophobic senators, even as he understood that the final truth of brave, gay soldiers would explode the heads of the Christianists. He twisted the knife on the GOP's demonization of Obama, and decimated the slippery slope arguments on gay marriage. … Continue reading The Weekly Wrap
Today on the Dish, Andrew countered Brendan Tapley on the future of manly love in a post-DADT world. We tracked the Prop 8 oral arguments, and Adam Bink summarized Olson's points. David Link exposed a McCain clinging to prejudice, Brian Beutler killed the GOP defense canard to stall a DADT vote, and Andrew urged them … Continue reading The Daily Wrap
Like Chatroulette – only devoted to Wikileaks and without all the penises. Seriously, the funnest way to peruse the cables.
Today on the Dish, Andrew widened his scrutiny of the pontiff to new cases of abuse, as well as highlighted a spike in claims among Austrians. Benedict's personal preacher somehow compared the media inquiry to anti-Semitism. A reader dug up countless other cases from centuries past, another disagreed with Andrew about the nature of the … Continue reading The Weekly Wrap
Today on the Dish we watched Obama adopt "Drill Baby, Drill!" Follow-up here. In Vatican coverage, Andrew dug up previous praise for Ratzinger but took him to task for his failings. Hitch was a bit harsher. A Kentucky lawsuit took aim at the Church, June Thomas brought up the abused girls, an Italian bishop spewed … Continue reading The Daily Wrap
"A Ben Folds-ish guy named Merton manages to make Chatroulette charming!"
This weekend on the Dish, the GOP started to panic over HCR, ACT UP took action in NYC, Ahmadi appeared unsafe, Barak warned of a possible "apartheid" in Israel, Nashville banded together against a hate crime, and the WaPo hired pro-torture Thiessen. In Cheney coverage, Politico explored his desire to attack, a reader added two … Continue reading The Weekend Wrap
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Sam Anderson investigates a new phenomenon called ChatRoulette, something John Heilemann just tipped me off about:
The site activates your webcam automatically; when you click “start” you’re suddenly staring at another human on your screen and they’re staring back at you, at which point you can either choose to chat (via text or voice) or just click “next,” instantly calling up someone else.
The result is surreal on many levels.
