Today, the vice-president who almost single-handedly broke the US military, bankrupted the country, trashed America’s moral standing and failed to secure a single WMD called president Obama the “weakest in my lifetime.” There are times when you really wonder if the man has any self-awareness at all.
So today, we analyzed the foreign policy of the man who inherited this broken country and has steered it with grit and grace ever since. Unlike the Cheney of 2000 – 2009, Obama is a classic conservative realist, and his aversion to shooting first looks like it is paying dividends in Ukraine. I went another round on the Kinsley-Sullivan spat; this video of a heroic tripod dog made me tear up; and we discovered – surprise! – that Silicon Valley is mainly staffed by white and Asian dudes. Also: way cute baby bears. And debunking cute cars.
Last night’s Best of the Dish featured a screenshot from the closing of the HBO documentary which repeated the untruth that the Perry decision has had a huge impact on marriage equality suits around the country (the dumb-ass argument Jo Becker tried to peddle). I’ve been told by HBO that that has been removed from the final version. Maybe HBO has gotten wise to Chad Griffin’s manipulation of gay history.
The most popular posts of the day were both about my whining about New York City’s rank incompetence, ugliness and unliveability. Go figure.
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Your reader wrote: “I can’t wait ’til you get to Provincetown and chill the fuck out for a while”. I laughed out loud. Because I don’t think that even Provincetown will necessarily meet your exacting standards of living, if memory serves. I think Jim Newell at Wonkette said it best back on July 27, 2009:
HEROIC PUNDIT RETURNS, COVERED IN POOP: You people loved Andrew Sullivan so much when he came this close to seizing the throne of Iran, last month, but then he went on vacation, leaving his blog to numerous bloodthirsty tyrants named Conor. But now he is back, and stone cold covered in shit: “This has been a bust of a summer this year on the Cape: almost no sun, an economic depression that is killing businesses and crippling real estate, and vicious hate crimes from some locals. Oh, and the sewer broke over July 4, with poo coming up out of the drains and showers and toilets. Good times.” Ah, summer with the Sullivans.
See you in the morning.
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