Today on the Dish, Andrew declared the status of same sex couples to be an essential part of now-tangible immigration reform. He mulled over Gerald Scarfe’s controversial cartoon on Netanyahu, and demanded that Fox News (and MSNBC) accept the consequences of peddling propaganda. He and Chait rolled their eyes at Free Beacon’s latest nonsensical screed against Chris Hughes and TNR, wished the Palins all the best in the land of political obscurity, and sighed as Tom Tancredo went back on his promise to smoke, and, what’s more, inhale.
In other political coverage, we suspected that immigration reform will do the GOP itself more harm than good: Harry Enten observed that shifting Latino attitudes wouldn’t affect many too swing states, and Pareene measured serious potential for a rightwing revolt agains any reform at all. Debate broke out at The American Conservative over Obama’s foreign policy credentials as Drum summed up the root of the president’s pragmatism abroad. We sifted through the wreckage of Timbuktu’s library, destroyed by the Malian jihadists, Evan Osnos spied a gulag map on Google Maps, and we anticipated the next debate over women in the military.
Elsewhere, Erick Erickson shared some intriguing personal details as he departed CNN, Danny Hayes noted that the media improved its attention span after the Newtown shooting, while Joe Romm called out George Will for once again muddying climate data. We considered the prosecution of juvenile killers, in light of a tale of gruesome homicide, Naomi Rovnick pulled back the curtain on factory audits in China, and Antigua had a shot at sidestepping copyright.
In assorted news and views, Seth Fischer wrote a dispatch from a world of personal trauma, John H. Richardson appointed promiscuity as a new holy virtue, and Daniel Altman refuted Pixar’s vision of the End of History. Readers sounded off on setbacks to their youthful ambition, Wayne Curtis strapped on jackboots for a tutorial on goose-stepping, and we encountered Ed Kilgore’s alter ego, in name only (Andrew’s, too).
Alison Motluck pointed out a snag in the way we practice fertility medicine, Ta-Nehisi pointed to some unsettling facts about the NFL, and we continued to search for a signal on plans for better Amtrak Wifi. We stared out at a white Vista Verde Ranch in Colorado for the VFYW, met an incoming American in the Face of the Day, and set the millennial generation to music in the MHB. Finally, readers managed to spot Winooski, Vermont in the latest VFYW contest (to Andrew’s great delight).
–B.J.
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