Putin stuck his fingers into America’s eye-sockets by giving Edward Snowden asylum for one year, but leading Christianists loved him anyway because he opposes freedom of speech and assembly for gay people. A Prohibition Rubicon was crossed when Uruguay became the first entire country to legislate a legal, regulated market for marijuana. The New York Times’ company’s subscription revenue grew by 5.1 percent as its online ad revenue fell 5.8 percent. Now you know why the Dish plumped for the subscription model as a first step, not a last one. Subscribe [tinypass_offer text=”here”]! Latest Dish-model data here.
In politics, it became clearer that the House GOP is incapable of actually cutting any spending which might hurt white people in their own districts. And good news: the prevalence of infant male genital mutilation in America is fast declining.
The most popular post of the day – by far – was “The GOP Calls Its Own Fiscal Bluff“. The second most popular was “What’s So Wrong With Virtual Sex?” By far our biggest referrer was the Huffington Post (to the GOP bluff post).
Over the last month, the site we referred the most people to was our old home at the Atlantic, followed by the NYT, Slate and The American Conservative.
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