Today on the Dish, Rauch went another round with Massie on whether blogging has improved our media diet. Conrad Black joined the Murdoch pile-on, and Massie exhibited the "denial, panic, stalling and extraordinary arrogance" exhibited by the Murdochs. The War of 1812 wasn't so awesome for Native Americans, and Massie took the Royal Navy-centric view. Rauch explained why he's against polygamy but still thinks it should be decriminalized.
The White House was meep-meeping its way tot a deal to expand government, but Felix Salmon thought damage had already been done. Ezra Klein reminded us all that taxes will have to get higher no matter what, so it's good that people want it that way. Chris imagined if one of the Obama girls got pregnant at 17 like Bristol, Will Wilkinson rejected Gingrich's version of God-given rights, Bachmann butchered chutzpah, and the internet placed bets on the Perry vs Bachmann fight.
Zack critiqued Israel's boycott bill, dismantled Obama's anti-colonialism and questioned how a counter-insurgency mentality influences our wars. The French rolled back the imperial presidency, we took Egypt's temperature, and Shadi Hamid encouraged Obama to think outside the box on Syria. Bradley Manning's devotion to openness extended to his sexuality, gay men still can't give blood in the US, and an Amber-like alert for a boy in Brooklyn backfired. Readers did their math on infrastructure projects, and reminded us why it's nice to keep a bathroom clean. Drug tests exist for insurance reasons, lawyers debated the meaning of shit, and humans can only run so fast.
Map of the day here, Christianism watch here, creepy ad watch here, VFYW here, MHB here, FOTD here.
–Z.P.
(Photo: Photographers aim their cameras at News Corporation Chief Rupert Murdoch through his car window as he leaves his London home on July 14, 2011. By Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images.)
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