Today on the Dish, Andrew 
by campaign marketing, readers sorted through the more cultish aspects of Mormonism, and a reader alerted us to a story of actual voter fraud. Sorkin fans grappled with Newsroom, Americans misunderstood the ACA, and constitutional law is usually dishonest.
We grasped the incoherence of Indonesia, reviewed the status of spaceships, and anticipated the liberation of drones. The Fox News correspondent in Rome officially joined the Vatican, GOProud officially endorsed Romney, and incumbents in Congress centralized governance. Maliki consolidated power in Iraq, one Syrian rebel turned to an American boy band, and Scott Horton discussed Obama's record on whistleblowers. Food aid often breeds violence, the narcotics trade propagates violence in Guatemala, and most serious crimes in Mexico go unpunished.
Readers remembered the plague years, a husband wrote in praise of monogamy as the tightest teamwork, and long-duration astronauts will need comfort food. American kids ran the show, "traditional" men resist therapy, and even American license plates are now divisive. We envisioned health care reform post-ACA, reexamined home birth, and delved into the history of splitting arrows.
Christianism watch here, creepy ad watch here, quotes for the day here and here and here, tweet of the day here, self-parody alert here, FOTD here, MHB here, VFYW here, and VFYW contest winner #108 here. Ad war update here.
—M.A.
(Cartoon by Ward Sutton of the Boston Globe with the artist's approval.)
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