Brilliant. Absolutely Brilliant.
Dr. Seuss explains the Iranian election protests. (Source here.)
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Iranian Democracy
Just a few quick thoughts on the elections in Iran. First, has it occurred to anyone that maybe Ahmadinejad actually won? That the results are genuine? This doesn’t even seem to have been considered as a possibility in the western… Continue Reading
Walk Out
If, like me, you are more than a little offended by the spectacle of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the author of some of the most virulent anti-Jewish speeches since Adolf Hitler, being permitted to address a United Nations conference on racism, then… Continue Reading
Sometimes Ignoring A Comments Thread Is The Wiser Choice Of Action
I thought to comment on an American plane shooting down an Iranian drone over Iraq. But then I read the comments thread on the article. After about twelve comments, I felt a whole lot dumber than I felt when I… Continue Reading
Two Month Update
At the end of December, I made sixteen predictions for 2009. Here’s how I’m doing so far: Prediction Status The United States Federal deficit for calendar year 2009 will exceed $1.5 trillion. I may have been too modest in this… Continue Reading
New Year’s Predictions
We’ll revisit this post in a year. Here are some things that I will be looking for in 2009: The United States Federal deficit for calendar year 2009 will exceed $1.5 trillion. A human being will be cloned. There will… Continue Reading
Long Or Short On Policy?
Steve Benen takes the Associated Press’s reporter Charles Babbington to task for calling Obama’s acceptance speech sketchy on the details of the policies Obama would pursue as President: Babbington: ‘Barack Obama, whose campaign theme is “change we can believe in,”… Continue Reading
Iranian Satellite Launch
In theory, Iran is under enough international economic sanctions that no one should be selling them any kind of advanced rocketry equipment. Which isn’t going to stop them from developing their own, and that’s what they’re claiming they’ve done —… Continue Reading
Feeling Oats In Iran
Now, this isn’t at all inflammatory. Iran test-firing twenty or so ballistic missiles with 2,000 mile ranges simultaneously is nothing at all to get excited about. After all, Iran only mounts conventional warheads on them! The point in Israel farthest… Continue Reading
A Cool Place Americans Can’t Go
The Wife and I had dinner tonight at a new restaurant in town, called “Pars: Fine Persian Cuisine.” Leaving aside the annoying subtitle (restaurants should not have subtitles), I’d never had a lot of experience with Persian food and was… Continue Reading