Today on the Dish, Santorum got frothy over the American Psychological Association, we recalibrated Romney's position on the Mendoza line, and a pro-Bachmann PAC pulled out the big guns (read: attack ad) for Perry. We collected the best reads on Huntsman's new tax plan, Kornacki chalked Perry's success up to the hubris of the GOP, Zack centered in on their blind Christianism, and Austin Frakt reassured us of what the GOP would have to pull off to undo the preexisting conditions reform.
Zack engaged Anne-Marie Slaughter and Joshua Foust on R2P in Libya, and battled Alyssa on True Blood and Games of Thrones. We got the skinny on the Keystone XL pipeline, David Rittgers skewered the DOJ's "Fast And Furious" operation, and all the psychoanalysis in the world couldn't save Dick Cheney from moral condemnation. Ethan Hein exposed our ridiculous copyright system, we contemplated racism and flashbulb memories in police lineups, and Wikileaks sprung a leak. We questioned the numbers behind hospital errors in the US and Europe, and community college exams trump the SAT in high stakes. DC pawned off its cannabis growers onto the federal government, and smart grids could lower the number of blackouts, while the US government picked a solar loser.
Despite all the evidence we still don't know how to make ourselves happy, exercise can treat the depressed if they stick with it, and reading blogs help our brains. A reader shared a heartbreaking story about the flooding upstate, others calculated their Visa fees, and the best way to board a plane is fast but confusing. Some people are addicted to soda, dog-people voted for more dogs in public places, and typing in tongues and leisure diving helped us get through a slow news week.
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–Z.P.
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