Today on the Dish, Andrew chronicled the offensive against Peter Beinart, went another round with Jeffrey Goldberg on related issues, flagged Roger Cohen's critique of Goldberg's reporting, called him out again, and restated his basic position on Beinart's boycott. Peter himself challenged opponents to articulate an alternative for restricting settlement growth, the Libyan war might have precipitated a coup in Mali, size of a state's economy was an ambiguously useful metric of global power, and traumatic brain injury was a serious problem for soldiers.
Andrew also explained in great depth why the Etch-A-Sketch gaffe was so devastatingly embarrassing for the Romney campaign while we followed up on some reactions from blogosphere to it, dug up one instance of his Etch-A-Sketchness, compared The Gaffe to equivalents in campaigns past, gave Mitt a chance in Louisiana, yawned at Jeb Bush's endorsement, wondered when the losers would drop out, and noted the importance of the Presidential race for shaping who controlled the Senate. Ad War Update here.
Finally, we posted an Urtak for Ask Steven Pinker Anything, charted the rise of Mormon feminism online, explored the "cost of being a woman," updated you on a victory for marriage equality in NH, aired a critique of Christianist "freedom," and looked at how a self-defense law enabled the murder of Trayvon Martin. Striking down the health care mandate looked likely to make premiums skyrocket, environmentalism hurt asthma sufferers, mapping the brain appeared capable of revolutionizing medicine, and referring to former politicians by their ex-titles seemed silly. Sexual desires were inextricably linked to your identity, fairy tales returned to their dark roots, an amazing chess story might be corrupted by Hollywood, the truth's imperfections helped create a story's value, the Clintons got an airport, and men cheered. AAA here, FOTD here (follow-up to yesterday's here), VFYW here, and MHB here.
– Z.B.
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