Iranian Crisis Turns Dangerous

As I type this message the news is coming in fast and furious:
Bomb at the Mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini, the leader of the of the Iranian Revolution in 1979.

Questions as to who was the bomber.  Most are suggesting it was a government attempt to make the protestors look violent and against the first Revolution.

Protesters [...]

Supreme Leader vs Protestors

This morning in Iran, the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, lead Friday prayers.  The government bussed in many supporters of the Supreme Leader and Ahmadinejad to the speech, held symbolically at Tehran University (the site in which dorms were vandalized only a few days prior; but was also responsible for the wave of support for [...]

Graphic Video

I want to warn you this video is graphic, but it simply displays some of what is happening behind the scenes in Iran.  The cameraman here, a private citizen shows his own bloody hand in the scene, but still continues filming while running:

Protesters Find Voice on Web

A protest picture of Esfahan, Iran in the historic Naghshe Jahan Square:

Websites abound in support of Iranian protesters, here are a few:
Twitter – Helping protesters communicate and organize.  Stayed open despite desperate need to repair site.
Pirate Bay – Protesting and pirating.
BBC – The same news organization that helped the revolution succeed against the tyrant shah [...]

Hell’s Kitchen season 5, episode 2

Too tired to truly discuss the greatness that was Hell’s Kitchen tonight, so I expect to see some comments regarding tonight’s episode.
I do have a few quick thoughts I would like to share. If there is anything you want to say about tonight’s show, please light up the comments. You guys got into the show [...]

Super Bowl and the ads.

I thought the Super Bowl was phenomenal.  It was a great game with great plays and two amazing comebacks.  The advertisements on the whole were subpar.  Budweiser was terrible.  Three were worth mentioning and were pretty good.  Here they are:
Best:

House MD: Season 5, Episode 5

And it touched us all, young and old, long and short, black and white, and all those in between, deep in our pants last night.  We watched and grew, metaphorically speaking that is, as 13 and her lesbian lover had their E-infused tryst.  Two soft-skinned fertile women groping and kissing and… it was just perfect. [...]

The Republicans will lose this year.

I am a fan of history.  Actually, I have grown up with the understanding that a more perfect understanding of history leads to a more perfect approach to the future.  You could look at this approach as trying to learn from your mistakes.  To be honest, this rarely works.  We usually exhibit a cyclical failure [...]

Hitchens is a Thinker

Here read this:  Don’t patronize…

Three Questions About Work

 
 
 
Though I have many more, these three came to mind today: