A round-up of Begala Awards nominees from Deutschland. (Newbies who are unused to my occasional facetious awards can find the explanations here.) (While you’re at it, if you want to change the color scheme of the site, click the little “Black and White” button at the top of the Dish.)
THE REALITY-BASED DOLLAR?: Dan Drezner looks at the worrying trends behind the dollar’s decline.
SLATE HITS BOTTOM: Yep, they have an entire article on the fact that at the end of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” (transcript here), I got up and readjusted my power-glutes. Slow news day? It was the first thing my boyfriend pointed out to me when I called him after the show. The reason? Slate demands an answer. It itched.
A HATER OF GOD’S PEOPLE: James Dobson, the social policy director of the Bush administration, had an interesting exchange with George Stephanopoulos on Sunday. Josh Marshall has the details.
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