Apologies for the lateness. Doing the AC360 show, while blogging, and working on the next phase of Dishness makes for a crammed schedule. So here are the posts I’d particularly recommend from today: how state and local governments prolonged the recession; how the top 1 percent is not going away at all; how Monty Python could look as serious drama; the prescient genius of Roger Ailes; and a new investigation into the murder of Matthew Shepard that may prove inconvenient for those who capitalized so eagerly – and simplistically – from his death.
But today we hashed and re-hashed the question of how or whether Obama pulled off the trick of persuading Putin and China to enforce the ban on chemical weapons with respect to Syria. We tussled here and here. And the truth is: we’ll only really know when all the inside details emerge and when the years have given us some better perspective. But I judge a president by his results – and this one, if it holds, is a real advance.
The most popular post of the day remains my post on Obama’s speech last night; followed by the two posts on the meep meep possibility.
I’m gonna crash now; see you in the morning.
The Dish 