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Today on the Dish, the clock ticked down on economic suicide, and Andrew pointed out whose side the American people were on. Bernstein wasn't hopeful about the Gang of Six's shortened timeline and Ezra Klein bemoaned Obama's missed opportunity when Simpson-Bowles was still fresh, but his approval ratings defied gravity. Palin announced another suspicious family pregnancy, and her threat level remained as high as ever, blowing Bachmann out of the water. But since Palin's still on the Fox payroll, she kept mum about Murdoch. Dana Goldstein defended Bachmann on the migraine front, Ed Kilgore prepared for her final test, Marcus Bachmann dressed her in winter white, and Steve Benen gloated over a new Reagan ad for the House Dems.
We checked in on Labour's maverick intellectual, and despite a study saying otherwise, Andrew still didn't believe Murdoch could swing elections. Private Eye lambasted "Piers Moron," Andrew feared for the Vatican's new low in Ireland, and Chris Steadman urged all atheists to come out of the closet. Joyner worried there's still no plan for Libya, DARPA field-tested a new war toy in Afghanistan, and David Axe transferred his own experience of an IED attack into a cartoon. We debated whether college athletes should be paid, considered an olfactory library, and recalled its important to memorize some phone numbers, even with a cell phone.
Borders went bust, Timothy Lee praised the democratic nature of journalism on the internet, and Timothy Burke reached for the medium chill. Andrew wasn't the only one to go native, Evgeny Morozov counseled Google through its identity crisis, and corruption causes the real damage in quakes. Government can't be measured in dollar bills, free trade has a moral basis, and having televisions doesn't mean most people can afford healthcare.
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–Z.P.
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