Today on the Dish, Andrew returned to the blog eager to cover l'affaire de Wapping. Andrew ripped into journalists who cheat, and Murdoch for thinking he was immune to the law and to basic morality, and the Guardian almost orgasmed over the bag in the bin. Andrew chastised the GOP for playing with US debt while Europe desperately struggles to stave off default. We kept an eye on the deal within reach, and the ideologically extreme legislation the GOP was pushing. Readers assessed Obama's poker face, and Conor caught flack for pointing out that Palin's movie is a flop.
Andrew feared for the children of Iraq reared on PTSD, unfreedom was on the march, and the Department of Defense couldn't account for 96 percent of the $9.1 billion funneled to Iraq. We debated drones in Yemen, Lauren Bohn brought news from Tunisia, and Norm Geras made the case for why we can't flog. Nukes allow a president to downplay the other tools of war, and Harry Potter would never torture.
We explored the town of Kiryas Joel in New York as an American theocracy, and remembered America's stinkiest immigrant cheese. Jonah Lehrer defended Google as a memory tool, Joel Meares sized up Tucker Carlson's site, and Holden Caulfield may have gotten his name from a movie marquee. Denser cities can't fully solve our energy problems, we glimpsed around the world on one day, and screens could stop traffic rubbernecking. A reader had to work through penises laid on her drive-thru window, Paul Ford tried to conceive in a blizzard, you don't need to drink eight glasses of water a day, and sometimes we all need a medium chill.
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–Z.P.
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