Today on the Dish, Andrew reflected on hell as a temporal, phenomenological reality. He reviewed Obama's big mistake, and elaborated on the Mormon question. Evan Smith senses that we've reached peak-Romney, and we delved into the Bain Capital founder's role in the corporate takeover economy. Perry plunged into birtherism, his new plan isn't exactly a profile in flat tax courage, and the Texas miracle was government-sponsored.
Qaddafi died in an ugly (but ultimately "convenient") lynching, Larison insisted that the war is still a failure, and a Republican congressman called out the GOP on Iraq. Our experience in Iraq shouldn't necessarily inform post-war reconstruction in Libya, Friedersdorf exposed the neocons on Iran, and we sized up Netanyahu's "crazy-quilt" coalition. War leaves material remains, and the Pentagon subsidizes competition for our own defense industry.
Occupy has a history, we followed OWS on Facebook, and Ken Makovsky predicted that the movement would escalate. It's virtually impossible to put yourself through college (debt-free), the debate over border security serves as a deliberate distraction, and scientists are having a hard time tracking down a control group that hasn't used cell phones. The star-spangled banner isn't about swagger, small businesses are relatively unproductive, and Erica Grieder championed boring efficiency measures. Musicians are still getting screwed over, religious beards express masculinity, and parents are only slightly more likely to oppose marijuana legalization than non-parents. We discussed the ethics of sweatshops, America's young demographics represent a critical advantage, and human beings can't sit still. Sam Harris probed questions surrounding science and consciousness, the GOP lost Pat Robertson, and a father read a virtual bedtime story.
Hathos RED ALERT here (related quote for the day here), FOTD here, MHB here, VFYW here, and VFYW contest winner #73 here.
— M.A.
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