Blog Profile / The Daily Dish By Andrew Sullivan
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| Archived Since: | March 6, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
The Core Reasons For Killing Yourself
The first major study of suicidal motivations has found that “many motivations believed to play important roles in suicide are relatively uncommon”: For example, suicide attempts were rarely the result of impulsivity, a cry for help, or an effort to solve a financial or practical problem. Of all motivations for suicide, the two found to be universal […]
Tragedy Of The Musical Commons
Bob Ostertag explains why he no longer gives away music for free: [E]veryone who is deeply into music has figured out how to download music for free, despite the best efforts of the record business to stop them, and has far, far more music downloaded to their laptops and iPods than they will ever have […]
How Much Do Helmets Help? Ctd
A reader writes: Re: your post on bicycle helmets, it’s much worse than you think. See this article, which pretty conclusively proves that helmets don’t do a damn thing for many kinds of head injuries and the government isn’t doing a damn thing to enact better standards. People are being lulled into a sense of safety with helmets that they […]
Not Cutting It
This excerpt of Lizza’s new piece (paywalled) on immigration reform is attracting a lot of attention: “There are American workers who, for lack of a better term, can’t cut it,” a Rubio aide told me. “There shouldn’t be a presumption that every American worker is a star performer. There are people who just can’t get it, can’t […]
Is Climate Change On Hiatus?
Brad Plumer warns against complacency when interpreting the latest data on global temperature: We’re still on pace to blow past that 2°C climate target. Intricate arguments about climate sensitivity often bypass a crucial point. Humanity...Show More Summary
Rand Is Already Running
A key part of Julia Ioffe’s profile of Rand Paul: When Paul launched his political career three years ago, he was viewed in much the same way as his father, or, as Senator John McCain once called him, a “wacko bird.” He was identified with the same marginal issues (drug legalization, neo-isolationism) and the same marginal constituencies (anarchists, […]
The View From Your Window Contest: Winner #158
A reader writes: I’m getting a strong feeling of “Germany” looking at this photo. That blue road sign with an arrow closely resembles examples of German road signs I found online. I suppose it could be France or Estonia, but the architecture keeps me leaning towards Germany – as does the graffiti in the lower-right […]
Quote For The Day
“‘Hey, we’re sick of getting caught doing crimes. Could you do us a favor and criminalize catching us?’” – Amanda Hitt of the Government Accountability Project on Big Ag’s legislative efforts to prevent any whistle-blowing by employees on animal cruelty. The kind of horrifying abuse of pigs we’re talking about is shown in a PETA […]
Do Millennials Give A Damn About PRISM? Ctd
According to the Urtak survey we ran last week, on a range of questions related to surveillance, it appears millennials do in fact give a damn: Translated: 44 percent of polled millennial readers are outraged over the NSA program while only 38 percent of older readers are outraged. There are similar results to the question, […]
Nudging Legal Potheads Toward Moderation
A really interesting proposal from Mark Kleiman, whose beard also deserves some kind of award:
In Defense Of Obama On Syria
A Republican reader writes: Once again, you have put me in the awkward position of defending the President. Though I wanted to laugh out loud when he said this wasn’t a new policy and “consistent with the policy I have had all along,” I have to say that he came off to me as principled. […]
It’s Not Civil Disobedience If You Run Away
Joel Brenner takes issue with Rand Paul’s description of Snowden’s leaks as an act of “civil disobedience”: From Socrates through Thoreau, Gandhi, and King, the great theorists and practitioners of this form of resistance to law have told us in words and actions that civil disobedience requires the disobedient citizen to suffer the legal consequences of his […]
Arming The Rebels Isn’t Realist. It’s Surrealist.
Obama’s plan in Syria is the latest in post-modern war theory. If you yourself don’t know what your thinking is, the enemy can’t find out. — Karl Sharro (@KarlreMarks) June 17, 2013 Noah Millman attempts to make sense of Drezner’s view that Obama’s wading into Syria is a realist calculus: Longstanding conflicts don’t weaken extremist […]
HIV Treatment As HIV Protection, Ctd
A reader writes: I read your piece on providing antiretrovirals to at-risk groups and was struck by the exclusion of a significantly large group who literally share your pain: African Americans, especially African-American women. There’s...Show More Summary
Even Fetuses Have A Wank?
That’s the stunning news from the latest Republican lunatic, Michael Burgess. He’s from Texas and he’s looked at male fetuses and is suspicious of what he sees: “Watch a sonogram of a 15-week baby, and they have movements that are purposeful. They stroke their face. If they’re a male baby, they may have their hand […]
Sentenced To Unemployment
Alec McGillis encourages conservatives to fight against discrimination based on criminal records: If conservatives are serious about prison reform–and the actual progress being made in states such as Texas suggests they are–then it’s not a stretch to see how they could also get behind efforts to rein in criminal background checks in hiring. Again, there are both […]
Geeks vs Nerds
Is there a difference? Blogger burrsettles believes the terms “are related, but capture different dimensions of an intense dedication to a subject”: geek – An enthusiast of a particular topic or field. Geeks are “collection” oriented, gathering facts and mementos related to their subject of interest. They are obsessed with the newest, coolest, trendiest things […]
What’s A Bisexual Anyway? Ctd
Add your two cents to our anonymous poll: Many more readers are sounding off: I think bisexuals are not out as much as gay people because we can pass. Somewhere in this NPR segment is some data that most bisexuals eventually marry a person of the opposite gender. Like the previous reader said, my sexual […]
The View From Your Window
Redmond, Washington, 3.09 pm
Do We Always Need Scientific Proof?
Last week, advocacy groups Friends of the Earth and GM Freeze released a study that claims to have detected traces of weedkillers in the urine of volunteers throughout Europe. Kara Moses considers the role that such “non-scientific” studies should play in the policy process: The study was basic, the sample size was small, the report was […]