Today on the Dish, New York marriage brought glasnost to the NRO, who also happened to endorse Barney Frank and Ron Paul's marijuana bill. People opposed marriage equality for the same reasons they opposed freeing slaves, and it meant some gay men had to leave behind their outsider status. Meanwhile, New York's decision could impact the Supreme Court, boost tourism, and aid feminism.
Michele Bachmann struggled to get anything right, partially because the right can't reconcile slavery with the infallible Founding Fathers. Our ears perked up for the next wave of Bachmann attacks, Romney ripped off Thatcher but butchered her pun, and Palin was ready for her close-up. Default precautions could still seriously mess with our economy, and some assholes weren't paying any federal income taxes.
The Taliban attacked Kabul, but we're screwed if we leave Afghanistan and if we don't. We treated military children like we used to treat soldiers at Walter Reed, and we may be feeding the dictators in the Middle East with our insane appetite for oil. Petraeus remained powerful, brain scans can't indicate whether someone's a terrorist, and the Israeli family is more diverse than many Jews care to admit. Private prisons go against society's best interests, China faced down the US, and intellectuals picked on Al Gore.
Andrew challenged the idea that science killed God, and pondered whether the universe being conscious of itself is a workable definition of God. Miss America remained ambivalent about evolution, New York battled the Canadian goose, and diabetes boomed. We investigated the linguistics of "like," Giles Turnbull nailed all job interviews, and home is a malleable thing. Assault by flatulence here, blog of the day here, merry go-round horse race here, chart of the day here, cool ad watch here, quotes for the day here and here, poseur alert here, Colbert bait here, MHB here, FOTD here, VFYW here and contest winner #56 here.
–Z.P.
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