Today on the Dish, Steve Jobs resigned from Apple, Wilkinson wondered why we don't resent his wealth, and we explored the new CEO's status as the most powerful gay man in the world. Steve Benen pounded in Perry's involvement in the execution of an innocent man, and we dissected Perry's lead over Romney. We had hoped Perry would embrace Texas' smart immigration policies, Karl Rove hit a nerve in Palin's thin skin, and climate scientists still agreed on climate science so politicians should follow suit. Raising the age of Medicare eligibility won't save us money, McArdle supported welfare reform, and poverty is a hard cycle to break. Fareed wondered if it was time to turn Congress into a parliamentary system, and Chuck Norris needed a gun to fight bad guys.
In Libya, rebels found Qaddafi's scrapbook of Condoleezza Rice but no Qaddafi. Mohammed Bamyeh downplayed tribal ties in Libya, while we found out Saif Qaddafi could have supported the protesters. Douthat allowed mild celebrations about Qaddafi's imminent fall and Drezner didn't want the Libya intervention to become the blueprint. Our foreign policy has been militarized, entrepreneurs could help rebuild the Libyan economy, and Jonathan Raab tried to explain why he needs to go back to war zones. In other international news, Japan decorated their manhole covers, China's porn industry thrived, and readers left a final round of kind messages about Jack Layton.
Groupon still isn't viable, rats bigger than cats terrorized Brooklyn, and toads can predict earthquakes. Heat doesn't make us violent, it just puts us into contact with more people which does, organ donors should get priority for organs, and we should have sympathy for the poor telemarketer. Readers nerded out on some more infinity, we underestimated the total number of species to be 8.7 million, and marijuana makes us more creative.
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–Z.P.
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