Today on the Dish, Andrew defended his right to ask empirical questions on Trig and wasn't buying Weigel's argument that conspiracy theories have been flogged to death. Andrew weighed the damage done in Gitmo and bemoaned Israel's rightwing victory in shutting Obama down on the peace process, and David Shulman sifted through the remains of Goldstone's partial retraction. Syria descended into chaos, Rio fought back against favela violence, and the war in Libya wasn't winning Obama any Republican cred.
Andrew rallied against pressuring lawyers of any kind, even DOMA defenders, and Texas acted crazier than Iran about transgendered marriages. Gas taxes can't achieve what we want them to, but Ryan Avent still defended them. Andrew gushed over Tom Coburn's fiscal realism and dismissed Haley Barbour as not being presidential material, and readers picked apart the mass insanity on the Democratic side. The GOP bucked Karl Rove, and E.D. Kain approved of Gary Johnson for his unwillingness to drop bombs. We unsucked the office, and analyzed whether healthcare patients can act like consumers. Aaron Carroll and Austin Frakt put emergency care in context, readers debated vaccines, and Mormonism can't cure poverty.
Our grapefruits evolved from atomic gardening, bananas have their own carbon footprint, and Heather Mac Donald dissed grafitti. Angry Birds shifted advertisers from TV to mobile devices, Michael Eisen outed Amazon's automatic pricing scheme, and Alexis feared the iPhone's tracking system. Women worried more openly, a "wrong" marriage is partially hindsight, and Elizabeth Abbott argued polygamy is wrong. James Gleick chronicled the biology of the meme, and Andrew swore off the Kate & Will wedding pizza.
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–Z.P.
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