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<p>Today on the Dish, Patrick <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/sotu-reax.html" target="_self">rounded</a> up the SOTU reax, including the three words most NPR listeners <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/the-sotu-in-three-words.html" target="_self">heard</a>, while Nate Silver <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/fewer-choices.html" target="_self">put</a> Obama&#39;s power in perspective. Conor <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/the-real-state-of-the-union.html" target="_self">illuminated</a> the real state of the union and <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/against-obligatory-editorials.html" target="_self">obliterated</a> the perfunctory SOTU editorials, while Douthat <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/playing-chicken-with-the-debt.html" target="_self">bemoaned</a> the lack of specifics on the deficit. Alex Balk <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/the-state-of-our-stomachs-is-strong.html" target="_self">comforted</a> us about the state of our stomachs, and Kevin Featherly <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/whats-up-with-bachmanns-pupils.html" target="_self">ogled</a> Bachmann&#39;s pupils.</p>
<p>Chris <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/egypt-erupting-ctd-2.html" target="_self">tracked</a> events on the ground in Egypt, including the <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/facebook-blocked-in-egypt.html" target="_self">status</a> of Facebook/ Twitter, and the day&#39;s <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/scenes-from-the-streets.html" target="_self">craziest pictures</a> and video. Blake Hounshell <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/its-not-about-us.html" target="_self">critiqued</a> the WaPo for critiquing Obama&#39;s response, and Marc Lynch <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/revolution-everywhere.html" target="_self">remained</a> humble but optimistic, along with <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/will-change-come-to-egypt.html" target="_self">Steven Cook</a>. Stephen Walt <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/a-tunisian-tsunami-ctd-1.html" target="_self">stood by</a> his earlier assessment about Tunisia&#39;s domino effect, and Conor <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/confronting-the-unthinkable.html" target="_self">prickled</a> at the blatant profit-scheme of the military-industrial complex. The US <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/how-they-die.html" target="_self">lost</a> more troops to suicide than combat, but gaming <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/gaming-for-health.html" target="_self">helped</a> them cope. Jennifer Rubin <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/fighting-back-against-the-neocons-ctd.html" target="_self">refused</a> to apologize for calling Steve Clemons an Israel-basher, and Conor <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/do-not-disturb.html" target="_self">wondered</a> if ending hotel porn would increase escort calls. Belgium <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/revenge-of-the-consumer.html" target="_self">pranked</a> its phone company, and terrorists were <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/terrorism-going-punished.html" target="_self">punished</a>.</p>
<p>Conor <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/what-should-the-right-talk-about.html" target="_self">fought back</a> against Hugh Hewitt&#39;s insistence that the right is a victim, but he <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/get-a-better-metaphor.html" target="_self">wasn&#39;t</a> any easier on Olbermann&#39;s bazooka style rhetoric. Frum <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/a-race-without-runners.html" target="_self">blamed</a> Fox News for the lack of 2012 candidates, Conor <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/why-swallow-the-key-to-the-smoke-filled-room.html" target="_self">begged</a> Bill Kristol to break a story about the GOP&#39;s inner sanctum, rather than just complaining about it, and he <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/you-cant-handle-the-truthiness.html" target="_self">dared</a> Ailes to hire Glenn Greenwald. Conor <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/our-longstanding-policy-on-dissents.html" target="_self">reiterated</a> the Dish&#39;s policy on airing dissents, and the Internet still <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/stop-laughing-mr-president.html" target="_self">wanted</a> the President to answer questions about our drug policy. We <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/beagle-habilitation-ctd.html" target="_self">heard</a> the flipside to animal testing, Noah Millman <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/why-three-fifths-wasnt-better-than-nothing.html" target="_self">rebutted</a> a Dish reader on the three-fifths compromise. Readers also <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/the-e.html" target="_self">weighed</a> in on evolutionary psychology and rape, <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/is-obamacare-here-to-stay-ctd.html" target="_self">Obamacare</a>, and Conor <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/folksy-old-testament-wrath.html" target="_self">luxuriated</a> in Huckabee&#39;s &quot;folksy Old Testament wrath.&quot;</p>
<p>Walter Murch tested the science of 3D and <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/3d-doesnt-work-with-our-brains.html" target="_self">found</a> our evolution lacking, but Dish readers <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/3d-does-work-with-our-brains.html" target="_self">proved</a> him wrong. E.G. <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/what-states-are-worst-at.html" target="_self">found</a> the shame of states bigger than just a joke, studying <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/the-decline-of-studying.html" target="_self">declined</a>, and Apple (and Girl Talk) <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/apple-and-the-death-of-albums.html" target="_self">changed</a> how we <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/the-death-of-albums-ctd.html" target="_self">listened</a> to albums. The DEA <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/markets-in-everything.html" target="_self">sold</a> rubber duckies, America <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/america-eats-soy.html" target="_self">shuddered</a> at eating soy, and weed <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/walmart-for-weed.html" target="_self">went</a> the way of Walmart.</p>
<p>Headline for the day <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/headline-for-the-day.html" target="_self">here</a>, VFYW <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/the-view-from-your-window-23.html" target="_self">here</a>, MHB <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/mental-health-break-20.html" target="_self">here</a>, and FOTD <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/face-of-the-day-11.html" target="_self">here</a>.</p>
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