Today on the Dish, Andrew responded to readers who pushed back on his steroid advocacy, shook his head at the lack of GOP sanity over tax cuts, contemplated Goldblog's idea to grant Palestinians Israeli voting rights, and joined J.J. Gould to explore the moral scope of The Walking Dead.
In political coverage, Cohn and Ezra thought through the negative side effects of filibuster reform for Democrats, Ambers guessed at Hillary's 2016 intentions, Peter Gergen pointed out the cynical politicking of Susan Rice's detractors, and Chait and Drum previewed America's liberal future via Obama's youth support. We also considered the influence of Maude's 1972 abortion, as well as dug into Lincoln's theme of compromise, while Avik Roy earned an Yglesias nod for pointing out the importance of the uninsured electorate, Rick Warren did anything but channel Jesus for a Malkin nomination, Waldman was pessimistic over Obama's drug enforcement plans, Pethokoukis and Frum mixed it up over the benefits of economic growth for Democrats, and Peter Kellner looked at conservatives' impractical uneasiness about adulterers and gays. In international coverage, Tahrir Square stood on the brink of mass violence, while Egypt's Islamists tried to rush through a new constitution and Israel added a way to discriminate against Arabs.
In assorted coverage, readers weighed in on the attractiveness of cut men, Kristen McConnell argued for letting people die instead of subjecting them to intensive care, Alyssa challenged Richard Cohen to apply his unnatural modern-man argument to women, McKibben explained the dangers of the Keystone Pipeline, Alan Sepinwall explored the origins of the TV's dramatic Golden Age, and Alexis Madrigal street-viewed with the added depth of Instagram. We also met a whacky Japanese inventor, heard Jellyfish researcher Shin Kubota opine on mankind's unnatural path, and weren't afraid to discuss the "phobia" in "homophobia", or to uncover the reality of college costs. Tom Simonite went over Google's attempts to anticipate our hidden needs, Brendan Carney Byrne tracked the end of Irish gangster-power, Ben Schwarz eulogized the Great American Songbook, and Saletan noted the bourgeois anti-nudity push of San Francisco's gays. After China launched a meme from its one aircraft carrier (as seen above), we looked at original Cambridge through the VFYW, watched stop-motion color in our MHB, and considered the plight of our Frenchman FOTD.
– C.D.
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