Iran: The revolution will not be televised.

[geerussell]

Live blogging from Iran.

[Uncle Mxy]

Shouldn't Jimmy Carter be sent in to investigate?

Sorry if this seems snarky, but I have a hard time getting excited over electing the #2 person in Iran. #1 is still Khamenei. Period.

[Big Swami]

Shouldn't Jimmy Carter be sent in to investigate?

Sorry if this seems snarky, but I have a hard time getting excited over electing the #2 person in Iran. #1 is still Khamenei. Period.

[geerussell]

The interesting part isn't the election of the #2 person in Iran. It's the level of unrest over the outcome. It could just fizzle out as they crack down on it--the most likely outcome--but if it doesn't then it becomes a shitstorm worth watching. There's a generation of young, educated, tech savvy people in Iran that's kind of fed up with the status quo.

[darkobetterthanmelo]

But with evidence being destroyed, will the true winner ever be in office?

[Tahoe]

I thought all this bad stuff would just go away with the messiah being elected.

[Zip Goshboots]

I'm not so sure I'd call Ahmadinejad a "messiah," Tahoe.

[Big Swami]

The revolution will be posted in 140 characters or less.

[Zip Goshboots]

I'm perfecting my NPR voice these days. Nasally, uttering EVERY phrase as it were a question, forming a very importan sounding name, like "Herman Oppinklause"--that I can also heavily accent parts of, as in "HerrrrMON Oppin-KLAAOOOOS-AY," and collecting a whole bunch of important sounding sounds to edit into the background of my reports. Things like a hammer pounding wood to add (if possible) interest to my report on a Northern Alaska Goat Herder who builds miniature versions of European hostels--but doesn't sell them. He just likes them. And he is amazed at all the notoriety it has brought to him.
I also am working on my profound interpretations of bad poetry, wonderful stories on subjects such as the endangered four legged Vermont Patagonian Gnat, how a guy lost his leg while opening a can of green beans and somehow found the strength to carry on and invent a new and improved (Environmentally friendly) fly swatter, AND one man's memoir of how he hitchiked all the way from Washington, DC to Fairfax, VA in a mere three years.

[geerussell]

I don't know what it had to do with the thread, but that was some funny shit, Zip.