Catherine Rakowski captions the latest viral sensation from Upworthy ClickHole, which you won’t believe until you see it:

At 1:00:46 you’ll be surprised, at 1:49:03 you’ll be touched, and what happens at 2:16:44 will blow you away.

Today, we tracked one step forward on marijuana – the feds are thinking of reclassifying the substance – and one step back – the House Appropriations Committee tried to stamp out the will of DC’s voters on decriminalization. We tallied the astonishing progress toward marriage equality – almost half of gay Americans now live in states with civil marriage rights.

Meanwhile, Iraq remained Iraq: ISIS veered toward total control of Anbar province and Maliki refused to budge on a new multi-sectarian government. And I asked a pretty simple question on the question of Iraq: why don’t we treat other people’s civil wars as if they are other people’s civil wars?

Plus: David Cameron’s unexpected survival; John Boehner morphs into Michele Bachmann; and the Dish came out for Nigeria in the World Cup. And one of the most sublime poems in the English language – a gay Catholic defense of wilderness.

The most popular posts of the day were about our policy toward Iraq: Raging Against Obama – And History, and The “Simplification” Of The Issues. 

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