Today on the Dish, Andrew 
President, and explained why 2012 matters so damn much. On that note, he also live-blogged that GOP debate (reax here), eulogized Huntsman's sane conservatism, noted Romney's national surge, and couldn't stand Jennifer Rubin sliming the administration on corpse desecration in Afghanistan. We compiled reax to the Huntsman withdrawal, put Romney's chances at over 90%, wondered whether Bain attacks would play in South Carolina, thought Mitt's rejection of his Mexican heritage in favor of unbearable whiteness poor strategy, noticed he was the rich man's candidate, and guessed at what would happen if he had won in 08.
We learned - morally speaking – to treat foreigners just like conationals, discovered Truman's prudent Iran policy, and vicariously went on holiday to Iraq. The recovery might have been prematurely announced, racial inequality in the economy was still a problem on this MLK day, but both slowing growth and Robin Hooding it were questionable solutions. Discrimination against smokers was debated, tuitions kept skyrocketing, and assessing how productive Americans are was hard but important. Livestrong sorta bilked people, police and tasers were a dangerous combo, football was risky for kids, eye-controlled computers were profiled, evolutionary biology accounted for chins, running on lava was surprisingly possible, and readers discussed the fine points of Jews (not) eating pork.
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– Z.B.
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