Today on the Dish, we live-blogged the Murdoch hearings, and collected the web's best and snarkiest reax. Rebekah remained shifty, and Fox had more pressing news to cover. Andrew wasn't impressed with Obama's performance from across the pond, and a large swath of the GOP base deluded itself into thinking there's no problem with default. Bruce Bartlett shut down Kevin Drum's fears that we'd only default as a last resort, and Simpson-Bowles was back on the table. Bachmann surged and Andrew argued the GOP deserved her. Goldblog reminded Bachmann that Israel is full of sweaty gays, and Andrew considered Corky St Clair Marcus Bachmann fair game for the gays.
Tunisia's democracy looked sunny, protestors in the Middle East could use the help of third parties besides the military, and James Traub didn't make a good case for the war in Libya. Serwer scoped the Libyan rebels' shadow government, and Seth Chalmer challenged Herman Cain's fearmongering on Sharia law. Gulliver questioned why tactical atrocity is punished while strategic atrocity is applauded, and terrorists set their sights on the Sunday morning cartoon market.
Felix Salmon proposed a better Netflix model, birthday wishes weren't what they used to be, and mushrooms helped out young trees in the forest. Readers reminisced over the stinky Limburger cheese, and one depended on memorizing a poem a night (and not Google) to improve their memory. TNC tsk-tsked comic book writers, and drugs won the drug war.
Odd lie watch here, quote for the day here, chart of the day here, FOTD here, MHB here, VFYW here, and VFYW contest winner #59 here.
–Z.P.
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