Unqualified Offerings

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Avram Grumer has to wonder, at this point, if “maybe a whole bunch of right-wing Republican moralists are engaged in some sort of weird nefarious covert political plot, and the [...]

By Thoreau
Comedy Central’s reporter went around Iran asking them trivia questions about the US.  Then he asked New Yorkers trivia questions about Iran.  The results can be summed up with a question:  How the f**k have those people even heard of Utica?
Best part:  A guy on the streets of Tehran was able to do an [...]

By Mona
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Today I was quite surprised to see that at Salon Frances Kissling, long-time president of Catholics for a Free Choice until 2007, is stating views that I hold, to wit: that even if  legal, not all abortions are moral. She is addressing post-viability-of-the-baby abortions (tho she does not employ the word “baby” [...]

By Thoreau
Governments should be afraid of their people.
Since it’s getting close to 10pm my time, I’ll just say:
1)  Allahu Akbar!
2)  Marg bar dictator!

By Thoreau
What’s up with the Iranian Kurds these days?  Google news searches don’t yield much.  My understanding (which could very well be faulty) is that Iran’s Kurdish population might not be quite as militant about independence as Kurds in Iraq and some parts of Turkey, but I also understand that Kurdish rights are nonetheless a [...]

By Thoreau
IOZ interviews The Revolution.

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Daniel Luban, ladies and gentlemen:
But to illustrate this obvious fact more sharply, consider the following thought experiment. In 1963, as King delivers his famous speech to the March on Washington, Soviet [...]

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Some people, not all of them my co-bloggers, have descried a reduction in my blogging frequently over the last little while. Indeed, I have, chafing under the boot of Barack Hussein Obama’s new American Socialist Republic, decided to [...]

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Matt Barganier, no pushover when it comes to politicians, offers a golf clap for Barack Obama and Mir Hussein Mousavi:
Obama may yet decide to bomb Iran into compliance with pristine Chicago [...]

By Thoreau
I’m not sure if the translation on this is accurate or not.