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The View From Your Window Contest

Tougher, we hope. You have until noon on Tuesday to
guess it. Country first, then city and/or state. If no one guesses the
exact location, proximity counts.  Be sure to email entries to
VFYWcontest@theatlantic.com. Winner gets a free The View From Your Window book. Have at it.

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The Palin Fortune

Not as large as you might think.
















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Quote For The Day

"It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to
defend himself with his limbs but not of being unable to defend himself
with speech and reason, when the use of reason is more distinctive of a
human being than the use of his limbs," - Aristotle.
















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The Iraq Tragedy, Ctd

The unintended consequences were catastrophic and yet the doctrine of neoconservatism survives like a zombie in Washington. Justin Vogt:

As a result of the Iraq fiasco, the direct influence of neoconservatism has clearly waned. But nearly two years into the Obama era, it has become clear that its most lasting legacy is not a set of policies or strategies, but a reframing of debates about American foreign policy around a number of neoconservative assumptions. To a surprising degree, those...

No Vaccine Yet, Guys

My rare departure from skepticism about an HIV vaccine appears to be misguided.
















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Sign Of The Times

From a reader in Mansfield, Ohio.

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A Bleg Answered

Yes, two individuals have been fired for being too anti-Muslim:

Ann Coulter was not only fired after an anti-Muslim rant she was fired
by a conservative publication, National
Review; and radio talk maven Michael Graham lost
his job at an ABC affiliate in DC  after Muslim American pressure.

Of course, Coulter lost nothing by being cast out of NRO career-wise, but the point stands, especially with Graham. But both said things far beyond Octavia Nasr's artless tweet - subsequently explained.

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The Evolutionary Case Against Monogamy, Ctd

A reader writes:

I have only one thing to add to this argument: To me it seems obviousthat there is a range of sexual experience - from random drunken sexwith someone whose name one cannot remember to passionate sex betweentwo people who love and trust each other. I've had both of these, andmany kinds in between. I have no moral commitment to monogamy,but my experience has been that the latter kind - sex between twopeople who truly love each other and genuinely want to bring eachother...

Keeping Cool

Dan Zak unearths a 1984 WaPo column by Henry Mitchell. The beginning:

People are confused about the weather of Washington. I shall explain basics:

Winter is cold.

Summer is hot.

Every year these truths hit the populace with the force of a thunderbolt.

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The Weekly Wrap

Today on the Dish we assembled analysis on the DOMA ruling and added Andrew Koppelman's clarifying point. David Boies reflected on the Prop 8 trial and the Vatican kept digging a hole. A big roundup of Palin '12 speculation here; Andrew thinks she's unstoppable. Josh Green started to come around to that possibility. A reader planned to pull a Rip Van Winkle while another called out her record on killing grizzly bears.

Andrew laid into neoconservatives over their failures in the Middle East,