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It’s a Good Regime in Iran, Real Good!

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , on January 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

New cartoon by Trussell & Trussell on Aol / Politics Daily. It’s a Good Regime in Iran, Real Good!

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Dying for Freedom

Posted in Film, Politics, tagged , , , , , on June 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Neda Agha Soltan’s path is not well trod, but it’s clear. These days the names Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King are rolling off of everyone’s tongues. MLK and Ghandi are indeed the stars of nonviolent resistance, but a more apt comparison might be Nazi Germany’s Sophie Scholl. Gandhi said, “First they ignore you, then [...]

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The Changing Face of Martyrdom

Posted in Politics, Social Media, tagged , , on June 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

We don’t know much about Neda Agha Soltan. We know she was 26 years old. Some reports say she was a philosophy student. We do know that on June 20, 2009, she was watching a protest in Tehran when she was shot to death. Because today’s world is radically different from that of the Chinese [...]

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An Atheist Says: God Be With You

Posted in Politics, Social Media, tagged , , on June 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »

The protests in Iran have got me thinking about religion, a subject I usually avoid. I don’t like the label of atheist. I’d rather be defined by what I do believe in than by what I don’t. Besides, people hate atheists. I mean hate. When a 2007 Gallup poll revealed that Americans would sooner elect [...]

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