Today on the Dish, Andrew had a "meep meep" moment after the fifth Republican debate since Labor Day, and we corralled extensive blogger reax here and reader reax here (more on the Dish's new polling feature here and here). Dana Milbank lamented Huntsman's failure to gain traction, the Tea Party ditched entitlement reform, and Romney carefully avoided the subject of Medicare. Mitt condescended to Perry before a sympathetic audience, Cain's plan rewards the rich and punishes everyone else, and the businessman addressed concerns that 9-9-9 was lifted from SimCity. We checked in on the AJA, and in our AAA video, Andrew considered the immediate future of pot legalization.
Jonathan Rue held out for nuance in the debate surrounding America's role in the world, Joshua Stacker blamed the SCAF for Egypt's woes, and the U.S. killed a 16-year-old American citizen in Yemen. Netanyahu's deal bolstered Hamas and undermined the PA, we remembered Shalit's American counterpart, and we assessed Obama's first chosen war. Shalit was subjected to a disturbing final "interview," Palestine's geography narrowed over time, and Walter Pincus urged the U.S. to reevaluate foreign aid to Israel. A terrible video of a toddler left for dead on the street sparked outrage and introspection in China, our relationship with Uzbekistan proved consequential, and the North Pole is quickly losing ice.
We explored the legal history of protest sleepovers, Jack Balkin wanted OWS to adopt its own constitutional arguments, and a sitcom captured the spirit of the movement. OWS and the Tea Party have different "styles," Jonathan Bernstein made an important contribution to the Annals of Chutzpah, and the Amish sustained a functioning anarchy. Scientists used Google Earth to map the spread of disease, white men clung to capital punishment, and Siri led the way to real AI. Density drives economic growth, comic books peaked during WWII, folding paper did the math, and a large parrot got frisky with a photographer. Readers weighed in on spousal relationships and parenting, airlines are in the black again, and writing about yourself shouldn't be "all about you."
Dissent of the day here, tweet of the day here, VFYW here, MHB here, and FOTD here.
— M.A.
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