I’ve been embarking upon a variety of “do-it-yourself” projects with varying degrees of success. Making bread: Success. Making cheese: Failure. Mending the lining to my fleece-lined jeans (an excellent idea, BTW): Sucess, for now. What I’m driving at is this: try things. It doesn’t matter if other people say you’re weird or uncool. Those people […]
Monthly Archives: October 2009
Iranian Government Cracks Down on Protesters
Violently suppressing peaceful protests is going to be bad PR for anyone. But the mullahs in Iran already have an international reputation as reactionary nut-jobs. Would it have killed them to simply wait a couple weeks? Better yet, they could have held new elections to underscore their legitimacy.
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