Today on the Dish, Andrew remained sympathetic to Occupy Wall Street and bullish about Obama at a time of extreme inequality, he began to dismantle Romney’s oblivious foreign policy address, and he reflected on the miracle of married life. Tony Blair defended Obama against the absurdity of the liberal critique, David French brought evangelical voters back to earth, and Jackson Diehl revised the history of the Iraq War once more. We compiled reports from the fighting in Egypt, a computer virus infected the cockpits of American drones, and IED blasts target the genitalia of soldiers.
Perry unleashed a sweeping attack on Obamneycare, Lawrence O’Donnell assailed Herman Cain over civil rights and Vietnam, and Jennifer Rubin was somehow surprised by right-wing bigotry towards Mormons, among other groups. John Gray pushed back against Steven Pinker’s thesis on pacifism, Kevin Drum refused to heed Peter Thiel’s warning that American innovation is halting, and Felix Salmon ushered in an era of high unemployment. We mapped same-sex households in America, and Noah Millman brainstormed solutions to our healthcare spending crisis.
The standard-setting American kilogram is better protected than the president, HPV now exceeds tobacco as a common cause of oral cancer, a new film celebrates citymaking, and “the storm and stress” of adolescence is rockier than the much-maligned midlife crisis. We visualized dinner and flavor patterns, readers mulled over Steve Jobs’ unique role in American job-creation (and destruction), and one reader has had enough of all the Jobs eulogizing. We uncovered the history of “Keep Calm And Carry On,” hitchhiking could combat our transportation and environment woes, and a Pennsylvania town has been going up in flames since 1962. Both painters and bankers benefit from conspicuous consumption, psychological bribery drives the economy of influence, and regulations stifle crowdfunding.
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– M.A.
(Photo of a sign at Occupy Wall Street via The Hairpin.)
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