Today on the Dish, the Greek prime minister called for a voter referendum on the EU bailout, and pandemonium ensued. Sexual harassment allegations are currently a net win for Herman Cain, readers weighed in on the claims, and we anticipated his wife's meeting with the press. Everything is going according to Cain's business plan, he backed a foreign government over his own, and a Republican operative understood the implications of the fringe frontrunner's hold on the party. George Will engaged in some pretty egregious credentializing pre-Romney take-down, Michael Gerson made an uncomfortable case for the flip-flopper, Huntsman's campaign charged, and Rick Perry is not a "talker." In our video feature, Andrew shared his reading list.
The Qatari leadership preempted domestic demands for democratic reform, Spencer Ackerman admitted to being "too blinded with fears of Iraq 2.0" when in came to Libya, and if Tunisia is a dolphin in transition, Egypt is a whale.
The occupiers are hippies for the era of Eisenhower, a reader commemorated "America, the Beautiful," and Jonathan Bernstein cheered 17-year-old suffragists. Military service makes great presidents, daylight drives consumption, and potatoes elevated living standards. Bridgeport is more unequal than Zimbabwe, humanity needs borders, and readers pointed out that the drug czar is legally required to oppose any effort to legalize marijuana. "The Clinton Magic" works, Niall Ferguson fetishized the West, and cohort replacement affects policies and practices. The new Lorax movie is a disgrace, reality TV stars cheapened marriage (while profiting from it), and for many women marriage is still very much an expectation and a goal.
Word cloud of the day here, hathos alert here, stoned Siri here, and home news here. FOTD here, MHB here, VFYW here, and VFYW contest winner #74 here.
— M.A.
(Photo: Greek and foreign media wait outside the Greek parliament in Athens during a cabinet meeting on November 1, 2011. Greece's government appeared headed for meltdown ahead of a confidence vote after Prime Minister George Papandreou called a referendum on the country's EU debt deal. By Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images.)
