Today on the Dish, Andrew defended Obama's record on the economy, the NYT tackled Palin's "supposed" labor without bothering to factcheck McGinniss, and the right resorted to imagined violence against McGinniss. Palin's affair with a sports-star while in the media drove one sports columnist up the wall, Andrew Sprung disembowled Perry's electability, and Perry doubled down on the evangelical front. Dan Savage earned a Moore award for going overboard on HPV, a reader reminded us about oral cancer, and bioethicists dared Bachmann to produce science to back her claims. Megyn Kelly earned an Yglesias award for her "post-partum compassion," young people took advantage of new healthcare provisions, and Roderick Long tutored Ron Paul on how to talk about libertarians and healthcare. We sized up Warren's fight against Scott Brown, Obama's base happened to consist of Dr. Who fans, and TNC chastised the left for having a bigger bark than bite.
Around the world, Reza Aslan made the case that Palestinians were following Israel's footsteps in declaring a state, and the blogosphere was mostly disappointed by the lack of Israeli creativity. Johann Hari apologized, Thomas Dinham got mistaken for a Jew, and Daveed Gartenstein-Ross exemplified why civility in the blogosphere succeeds. Ann Curry blessed Iran's president with a total softball interview, and the FBI disappointed us with their Islam training material. Drone could one day fight wars better than real soldiers, and Ackerman wondered what happened to all the Islamophobic veterans the right used to trot out.
Rape doesn't just apply to female soldiers, and Canada proved we can't afford to ignore the good soldiers who are female. Lawless fertility businesses spurred innovation, testosterone and happy marriages don't fit into a single box, and the Dish got there first on whether college athletes should be paid. Game theory could predict wars so we don't have to fight them, the way we measure poverty has evolved, and we're not making enough new antibiotics. Meth use plummeted while pot use spiked, Nicolas Cage confronted a naked intruder with a fudgesicle, and Jews love Chinese food because it's varied, fatty and festive.
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–Z.P.
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